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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 15:20:20 -0400
From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: Samium Gromoff <_deepfire@mail.ru>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Subject: Re: ReiserFS question
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On Thursday, April 26, 2001 11:05:25 PM +0400 Samium Gromoff
<_deepfire@mail.ru> wrote:

>       Hi People...
>    got a following "dead of alive" question:
>    how to find a root block on a ReiserFS partition
>    with a corrupted superblock?
> 
>    reiserfsprogs-3.x.0.9j simply writes -2^32
>    there at start (reset_super_block) and then simply
>    crashes when attempting to access to such mad place
>           ... got nearly lost my main partition ...
> 
> 

The reiserfsck ---rebuild-tree will find the root block for you.  Now that
you've rebuilt the super, run with --rebuild-tree and it should find
everything.

-chris

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