On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 12:28:41PM +0200, Yo'av Moshe wrote: > Hey, > I'd start by saying that I know Btrfs is a still experimental, and so > there's no guarantee that one would be able to help me at all... But I > thought I'll try anyway :-) > > Few months ago I bought a new laptop and installed ArchLinux on it, > with Btrfs on the root filesystem... I know, it's not the smartest > thing to do... > After a few month I had issues with my hibernations scripts, and one > day I tried to hibernate my computer but it didn't go that well, and, > well, ever since then my Btrfs partition is not accessible. > I opened up the Btrfs FAQ and saw that the fsck tool should be out by > the end of 2010, and thought "oh well, I could wait until then", and > went on and installed Ubuntu with Ext4 on another small partition. > > But times goes one and the fsck tool is still in development... I've > tried using the code from GIT and it didn't work, and I'm starting to > wonder (a) if there's any hope at all and (b) what other step am I > able to do to recover my old Btrfs partition.
Yes, there is hope. This error should be fixable with the new fsck. > When trying to mount the Btrfs parition I get this in dmesg: > [105252.779080] device fsid d14e78a602757297-bf762d859b406ca9 devid 1 > transid 135714 /dev/sda4 > [105252.818697] parent transid verify failed on 216925220864 wanted > 135714 found 135713 [snip] > Should I wait for btrfsck to be ready? Yes. > Am I not using it correctly now? No, there's not a lot the current version can do right now. > Is there anyway to recover this partition or should I just wipe it and > reinstall Btrfs only when I'm supposed to?.. > > Your help is appreciated. HTH, Hugo. -- === Hugo Mills: hugo@... carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === PGP key: 515C238D from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk --- "I am the author. You are the audience. I outrank you!" ---
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