Tue Mar 14 00:40:06 EST 2006

Dead Root Partition


Well, I just got a big surprise. It seems that the partition of my system root has taken a complete dive and won't mount. As usual this happened without warning. In fact, I was using my system normally, booted into Windows to game a bit, then when getting back into Linux I got a nasty screen full of errors and was told that I had to run fsck.reiserfs --rebuild-tree on the partition due to fatal errors.

Luckily I keep backups. And even more luckily I could still get into the partition and copy off recent changes in single user mode. So, here we go, lets cross our fingers and see what the rebuild-tree options does.

Man this sucks. Wish me luck!

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