On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, William Coulter wrote:
> Ok, my main PC has crashed and it can't get up. I ran reiserfsck
> /dev/hda1 --rebuild-tree and it told me to run --rebuild-sb, that is super
> block. I didn't know that before today. I have an 80gig hard drive and
> it asks questions that I don't know how to answer.
> 1. Block size? It says 4096. Is that correct?
> 2. Partiion size? It says 257024. What should it be?
>
> I don't do this very much. I have looked on the internet but didn't find
> any answers. Help.
I suppose "don't use reiserfs" is not appropriate now, but I've heard that
reiserfs is mostly equivalent to mkreiserfs. Sorry. I'd say, restore that
partition from backups onto a different filesystem.
Failing that, If you have a spare HD (or can beg/borrow/steal one), it's
usually safer to copy (e.g. dd) the crashed partition into a file on the
scratch HD, losetup it so you can refer to it via something like this:
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 0 2006-08-31 20:03 /dev/loop0
and then you can experiment without risk to your data.
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