Hello michael chang wrote: > I know this seems kinda funky, and this is the first time this has > ever happened to me using a reiser filesystem. (I've found that after > decent testing, the filesystems, like reiserfs3 work quite well.) > > Anyways, I'd booted off of a Ubuntu 5.04 live CD and gotten gparted, > and tried to use that to resize my reiserfs v3.6 partition ( > /dev/hda5, containing /boot inside (didn't put it as a seperate > partition, to my own woe) and a ClusterKNOPPIX cloop image and all the > files in the system). Anyways, I tried to shrink the partition (which > I'd done many with great sucess, albeit this was my first time using > gparted to do it), but for some reason it ran reiserfsck -y > --fix-fixable and wouldn't resize the partiton. So I went and > switched to parted, which while resizing told me that there was an > error with one of the inodes. > > So I figured I'd check the partition. I went and ran reiserfsck > --check /dev/hda5 and it went and told me I needed a rebuild tree. So > I ran reiserfsck --rebuild-tree /dev/hda5, told it yes, and let it > run. > > When I went back to mount the paritition, I could do an ls of the > root, and see filenames. But if I went in to one of the directories > (e.g. /etc, /boot, or whatever) and list, I would get a list of the > files, but -l would tell me the permission was denied to read the list > of files, while running as root, from a rescue CD. [At this point, > the entire disk was unbootable, because GRUB would give an Error 16 > and sqawk because it couldn't read /boot/grub/menu.lst from the > partition.] I tried chmoding the files as root, just about > everything, and it would always fail. > > If I boot my Ubuntu install cd and run the "rescue" system, and try > and select my reiserfs partition, it will fail, saying that it doesn't > have the permisisons to execute /bin/bash. >
Please boot off install cd so that it does not mount problem reiserfs partition (/dev/hda5) as root filesystem. Mount /dev/hda5 to /mnt and run ls /mnt/bin/ -l What do you get? > So, I'm sitting here with my pc next to me, with a reiserfs partition > that seems to have all the data intact on it, but gives a permision > denied error when I'm running any tool as root, even to just get a > directory listing and read the files. > > Unfortunately, I didn't think to capture reiserfsck's output while it > was doing its work, so I don't have a copy of that, unfortunately. > > I don't have $20, or otherwise I would send it, but I would appreciate > any help that could be given, if possible. I understand you're all > busy and resource-strapped, although I'm rather perplexed about my > situation. Thanks. > > -- > ~Mike > - Just my two cents > - No man is an island, and no man is unable. > >
