reiserfs corrupt! Girlfriend's fault

desktopfan

During the night I run cron jobs that would slow my system down. And during this time
the gf was watching something with xine. However since my jobs were running this caused
skipping of the video. This caused her to try ctrl alt delete (I trained her to do so), but since
this did not work she pressed the reset button! (not part of the training)

Now im faced with a corrupt reiserfs partition with about 50 video files out of a few hundred all giving the error
permission denied. Now I want to copy all the stuff off this partition but using the cp command
locks the pc on the corrupt files. I dont fancy going through all the files copying one by one
so is there a way to get the good files off without it hanging on the corrupt files?

Any help much appreciated!

Dark Ninja · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 127

Not sure if this will help you or not, but check this site out: http://www.antrix.net/journal/techtalk/reiserfs_data_recovery_howto.comments

BTW - I'm not responsible if you lose all your date.

[edit]
Someone said that this worked for them as well: http://www.martian.org/marty/archives/000888.html

desktopfan · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 9:14 pm Post subject:

Already tried that 1st solution but it did not work. reiserfsck would not work because it said I have bad sectors.
I would try the second one but I do not have a large enough harddrive to copy the stuff too. There is over 100G
of stuff on there and my other drives are 80 max

desktopfan · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 7:59 pm Post subject:

What would be a good filesystem for a unstable pc?

My dvd player in the machine causes some hard lockups and therefore needing the reset button pressed.
Ive read that ext3 is less likely to get corrupt than reiser but what about ext2. Would it be like vfat and rather
hard to corrupt? And how would you deal with fragmentation levels on a ext2 partition?

desktopfan · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 8:08 pm Post subject:

Sorry for my constant postage.

What would be a good util for copying files from the partition with bad blocks.
cp and scp seem to have problems when they hit a file with a bad block.

Dark Ninja · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 127

ext3 is ext2 with journaling capabilities and, yes, it is supposed to be more stable than reiserfs (although, I havent had any problems with reiser).

As for your other questions, I'm not sure. Sorry.

desktopfan · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:14 pm Post subject:

actually scp IS working just VERY slow on some files. Took 40 mins for 80 meg
over the LAN. Well at least it works.

Shame this 250G SATA drive is on its way out so early. Ive only had it about 6 months

:cry:

bcmm · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 11:28 pm Post subject:

AFAIK, the main difference between ext2 and ext3 is that ext3 has features that help with crash recovery.

OT, but what are the reasons to us ReiserFS over EXT3 or the contrary?

d_m · Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 12:06 am Post subject:

Like you say, ext3 is literally ext2 where it writes extra metadata files which journals the filesystem. Tests have shown that ext3 is the slowest journaled filesystem by a wide margin.
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Cintra · Advocate Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 2111 Location: Norway

Hope you'll let us know how it goes...
with the girlfriend, that is ;-)

mvh
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desktopfan · Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 7:27 pm Post subject:

Well I've not shot her yet...