[lug] Repair Reiserfs root partition FIXED

[Bob Collins]

Duh. . .  I tried knoppix, but looked for  a tools section in the 
menus.  If I would have typed "reiserfsck --help" in a konsole shell I 
would have gotten the help screen.  I have use knoppix a lot, a  friend 
with a high speed connection keeps me updated and I have copies stashed 
in several places.  One with my backups.  These guys are doing a great 
job, maybe SuSE and Redhat should have been sold sooner.

Michael, thanks for setting me straight.  It worked like a charm.

Michael Hirsch wrote:

> On 8/31/05, *Bob Collins* <bcollins at fpcc.net 
> <mailto: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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