Hi all, I am running a woody server with the root fs (reiserfs) on software RAID1. Kernel is 2.2.20 compiled with Debian make-kpkg from the Debian package of the kernel source.
The server suddenly stopped working and I was unable to log in from the console. Attempting to reboot failed with "No init found". I booted the woody bf2.4 install floppies (that have reiserfs capability) and used Eduard Bloch's RAID-and-LVM extdisk floppy to restart the arrays. I successfully mounted the filesystems under /target BUT /lib and /etc were missing from the root filesystem. Doing ls /target returned: /target/etc: Permission denied /target/lib: Permission denied <normal listing followed> I copied the root filesystem onto a single disk partition on a fresh disk using dd, and ran reiserfsck --rebuild-tree on that. That got me /etc back, but what appears to be /lib is in /lost+found. There are files and directories in the top level named with numbers. The good news is that only the files and directories in the top level are named with numbers; it appears that files in the lower levels have retained their names. Any suggestions as to - How not to have this happen again? - How to get the names in the top level of /lib back? Best regards, | George Karaolides Linustech Advanced Solutions, | | tel: +357 22 89 87 28 31 Evagorou Avenue, Office 32, | | web: www.linustech.com.cy Nicosia CY 1066, | | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Republic of Cyprus. | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
