[Gllug] Root doesn't have permission

Dave Cridland dave at cridland.net
Mon Mar 4 19:33:56 UTC 2002


On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 12:50, Roger Whittaker wrote:
> Thanks to everyone who made suggestions.  In fact it was a problem with
> reiserfs - I cured it using resierfsck, which found these filenames which
> weren't pointing to anything and delected them.  How it got like that,
> though, I've got no idea.  The reiserfsck dropped some junk into
> lost+found which all looked like browser cache stuff too.

Oh, reiserfs... Yes, lost lots of data on that.

It *might* be dodgy hardware, or it *might* be bugs in ReiserFS. Either
way, ext[23] appear to fail a little nicer on dodgy/dying disks. Perhaps
this is purely luck on my part, but either way, last I looked,
reiserfsck didn't seem to do very much, whereas I trust e2fsck happily.

Although, and this is wavering off-topic - has anyone *ever* said "no"
to e2fsck when it asks whether you want to fix something?

Dave.


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