[lug] Repair Reiserfs root partition

[Michael Hirsch]

On 8/31/05, Bob Collins <bcollins at fpcc.net> wrote:
> 
> My hard drive has 9 fixable corruptions. I am taken into single user
> and told to run reiserfsck --fix-fixables. I do and it says it is read
> only mode, which it isn't but it is the root (/) partition. Starting up
> with the SuSE 9.0 DVD takes me to where I am offer the choice of fixing
> problems. I run this and it tells me it is repaired, but it isn't. I
> think that is because it is the root partition.
> 
> I don't have any floppies that will let me boot up with a root ram disk
> with the tools to fix the partion. Does anyone know where to get such a
> thing or have a better solution.


Tom's Root/Boot floppy distribution is very good. I don't recall if it has 
reiserfs tools on it, however. If you have a CD writer and decent bandwidth 
there are dozens of bootable CDs with tools on them. Knoppix is the most 
famous of them and has lots of tools on it. Knoppix is general purpose, I 
think there are several that are designed for recovery, but I bet knoppix 
has what you need already.

Michael
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