Hello On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 12:33 +0200, Dirk wrote: > Łukasz Mierzwa wrote: > > Dnia Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:08:58 +0200, Dirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napisał: > > > >> Hello, > >> will using > >> > >> fsck.reiser4 --build-fs > >> > >> result in data loss? I mean to fix the partition - NOT to lose the data > >> on it.. > >> > >> The manual page is also not very specific about if data will be lost or > >> not when using this option... > >> > >> Using --fix resulted in a message that I should use --build-fs to remove > >> corruption... > > > > > > You will probably end up with some amount of files in lost&found dir, > > those will be the files that fsck can't recognize from what dir are > > coming and what are named, depending on what corruption You have there > > can always be some files that You won't get back. As always, backups > > are a must have on any fs. > > > > > > The hdd was full and a process was still trying to write and create new > files... So I guess those files might end up in lost+found... > > Just want to make sure that --build-fs will not build a _new_ fs, > meaning formatting the fs by formatting it?!?
it will not format. This is another mode of recovering. > That wasn't very clear > from what I'd read in the manual... > > Dirk >
