Hay, I wanted to give a shout out to everyone for the help. It turns out that I was trying to fix
the wrong drive. Someone else said that I should do a cat /etc/fstab and that told me what I was
doing wrong. In the end, the drive is dead and I lost about 20gigs of info. Now is the difficalt
process of restoring from cd backups. I have to find a better way of doing this, so I may make a
file server. I haven't done that before. I am babbling again. So, thanks for the help.
William
--- William Coulter <wrcoulter30@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the advise, but it doesn't help me to get the partition up and running. I have a few
> files that I would like to get off. No, I don't have another drive that I can use right now.
> All
> of my drives are being used. If the data is bad, then the data is bad. I can live with that.
>
> William
>
> --- Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > 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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