ReiserFS Problem

[dep]

quoth Condon Thomas A KPWA:

| I've been running SuSE 8.0 on my home system (primary
| desktop/mail-reader/web surfer) for some time.  My boot and / disk is
| a 20GB EIDE disk (master on 1st IDE).  I decided to upgrade to SuSE
| 9.0 while adding an additional NIC and a 250GB EIDE drive.  So I
| carefully saved some data and shut down normally.  I disconnected the
| old boot disk to insure nothing could happen to it.  I had troubles
| booting off the new disk, so I re-connected the old disk to boot from
| it.

i had something similar when i went from 7.2 to 8.2 -- removed the old 
drive and when the install went fubar, old drive wouldn't work anymore. 
really weird.

| No luck.  The reiserfs is showing problems.  The error message asks
| for the root password to allow me to repair it and says it is mounted
| read only, so it shows how to mount it r/w so I can run reiserfsck
| and fix it.  I try that.  Can't run portions of the fix/test if it is
| mounted read/write.  So I tried it in read only mode.  It can't run
| other portions of the test/fix if it is read only.  Neither way can
| complete the fix of the disk so it will boot or is even usable.

i think you're making a mistake in reading the instructiuons here. give 
the root password and then run reiserfsck /dev/hdX, where X is the / 
partition. *then* you can mount r/w. the same confusion can result from 
the ambigious instructions when plain old e2fsck is called for.

i think that if you try that, you may achieve success.

| At work now, so I can't test this, but I suspect that I should have
| popped in my Knoppix CD and gotten it up and running and used it to
| fix the hard drive.  Does that sound feasible?

yup -- but first, try running reiserfsck without mounting the drive r/w.
-- 
dep

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