On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, at 6:24pm, Hans Reiser wrote:
> A colleague of mine back when I was part of a sysadmin department used to
> write to every block on the drive before installing the OS on it. I think
> he was right to do so. I have considered having mkreiserfs ask the user
> if he wants to do
A colleague of mine back when I was part of a sysadmin department used
to write to every block on the drive before installing the OS on it. I
think he was right to do so. I have considered having mkreiserfs ask
the user if he wants to do that.
--
Hans
Stefan Fleiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi Vitaly!
>
> On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 Vitaly Fertman wrote:
>
>> Ah, I guess I know what happened. I think you have some fatal corruptions and
>> rebuild-tree is required. In this case check and fix-fixable do not perform
>> semantic check.
>
> Then rei
Gerrit Hannaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there a difference in the way reiserfs formats as opposed to ext2/3?
> Your mentioning the defective blocks were never read before reminds me
Well, the long explanation is, that the blocks may not have been used
for some time, or that they have go
Hi Matthias,
>No way fsck caused these. The problems were there, you just did not see
>them, because you did not read the defective blocks before. Unless the
>drive has suffered inadequate treatment, (dropped, computer kicked or
>bumped into, overheat) better return it for warranty repair or
>rep
Gerrit Hannaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I ran reiserfsck a second time, and this time it stopped later.
> The strange thing is this disk and installation are relatively new
> (March 2002), and digging back through syslogs shows occurances
> (kernel)(.*)(hda) only on:
> 4 May 20 (2 sectors)
Hi Vitaly,
Your analysis is dead-on!
I ran reiserfsck a second time, and this time it stopped later.
The strange thing is this disk and installation are relatively new
(March 2002), and digging back through syslogs shows occurances
(kernel)(.*)(hda) only on:
4 May 20 (2 sectors)
370 Aug 15 (>1
Hi,
On Friday 16 August 2002 01:29, Gerrit Hannaert wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> Well, I decided to give rebuild-tree a try now, since the trouble was not
> with my binaries and I didn't know what else to do (maybe I should have
> waited). Unfortunately, it went bad after 60% or so.
>
> What is there
