On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 16:16, evilninja wrote: > ah, now this is funny. dd doesn't care about the filesystem and can't even > read the device. > this does not seem like a (reiser-)fs issue, more like a > corrupted partition table / device
I agree that it's not a reiser issue... but, how did it get mounted in the first place? > (if the data on > /dev/mapper/system-lvol0 is not (!) important, you could play around with I find the root partition an invaluable part of the system. So, I'm not going to destroy it on purpose. I'm not quite sure how to boot without a root partition ;) I'm really looking for a non-destructive way to test/repair whatever has happened. The partitioning seems fine (an ext3 boot directory of a few MB, an 8GB swap, and the root partition): Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 5 40131 83 Linux /dev/hda2 6 979 7823655 82 Linux swap /dev/hda3 980 30515 237247920 8e Linux LVM Chris
