On 8 June 2010 23:54, walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 06/08/2010 11:42 AM, Mick wrote: > >> It seems that the fs was well and truly corrupted. :-( >> Is reiser4 prone to corruption? > > I know zero about reiserfs, so I'm uniquely qualified to make suggestions :) > > Did you do any/some/all of the steps mentioned here?: > > http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/repairing-reiserfs-file-system-with-reiserfsck.html > > I'd hope that the reiser utilities might give you some useful error > messages.
Thanks I used reiser4progs to check and repair the fs. The weird thing is that I had to repeat this on the /var partition, after I zero'ed it, reformatted it and reinstalled gentoo on it. O_O How is it possible that the same directory/file gets corrupted again after a reinstall? Could it be that gcc has some stealth anti-reiser4 fs code that borks it every time! I am really confused with this problem. PS. Any idea how I could set the partition label to "var" without damaging the data on it? I forgot to do that at the time I formatted it ... -- Regards, Mick
