Eric P wrote: > So I'm doing an 'mplayer -dumpfile', and before I know it I've > completely filled the last 10GB of my hard drive (total 80GB). It > wasn't were the OS resided; just a HD used for a file holding space. > > Anyway, after reaching 100%, the folder I was working in became > non-working. When I would do 'ls' from its parent folder, it said > something like 'Couldn't lstat /folder permission denied'; even as root. > > (sorry if my details are sketchy. Unfortunately, I tried tackling > this problem while I had a fever. Bad idea.). > > > It's a reiser4 FS, so I umounted and ran: > # fsck.reiser4 /dev/hdb1 > ... > Warn : Fatal corruptions were found. Semantic pass is skipped. > ***** fsck.reiser4 finished at Thu Jan 5 18:35:18 2006 > Closing fs...done > > 1 fatal corruptions were detected in FileSystem. Run with --build-fs > option to fix them. > > > So, as suggested, I ran: > # fsck.reiser4 --build-fs /dev/hdb1 (which ran for ~30 min) > ... > Warn : Reiser4 storage tree does not exist. Filter pass skipped. > ... > Fatal: No reiser4 metadata were found. Semantic pass is skipped. > ***** fsck.reiser4 finished at Thu Jan 5 19:16:50 2006 > Closing fs...done > > NO REISER4 METADATA WERE FOUND. FS RECOVERY IS NOT POSSIBLE. > > > So this is (ahem) bad, huh? Am I screwed? Or is there any way to > recover some of the files? > > Thanks for reading! > Eric P. >
Should I post this somewhere else? Maybe on the devel ML? Thanks, Eric P