RE: [SLE] Hosed root dir



-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Donnelly [mailto:kevin@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 11:32 AM
To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
Subject: [SLE] Hosed root dir

While experimenting with editing video with Kino on 9.3, I moved some
files
and the machine froze. A reboot halted at the GRUB announcement.
Rebooting
into Installation -> Rescue Installed System said sda2 (root dir) and
sda7
(a
data dir) were corrupt, and suggested repairs, which I accepted. It
also
said that sda10 (another data dir) had an unknown filesystem on it.
All
dirs
on the disk use Reiserfs. However, the app then hung at the stage
where
it
attempts to mount fstab dirs. Accessing the system via Rescue System
from
the CD allowed me to mount all dirs except sda2 and sda10, and the
data on
them *appears* to be OK and accessible. Reiserfsck --check /dev/sda2
just
gives up and says there must be bad blocks on the disk.

At the minute the most likely option seems to be a reinstall on sda2
(assuming
that the disk isn't totally kaputt), but that will lose my email and a
couple
of files I'd like to keep, including a small db I forgot to back up.
Is
there any option other than this nuclear one?

Hoping someone can help ...

Kevin Donnelly

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[Black, Alain]
During the install, you can choose to customize the partitions based on
the suggestions. Select "Edit" and uncheck format for the partitions
that you don't want to format and make sure the mount options are
correct.

Another option would be to install a 2nd hard drive in the system, from
the recovery console, mount the current data that you want to save, and
the new drive and copy the data to the new drive.

Good luck,
-Alain.

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