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From: Ross Vandegrift <ross@willow.seitz.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 00:01:45 -0500
To: Diego Calleja <grundig@teleline.es>
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Subject: Re: Reiserfs corruption on 2.4.17-rc1!
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> This is my opinion:
> 	-Something (reiserfs, anything) has caused fs corruption
> 	-It should be repaired by reiserfsck, but it's broken :-((
> 	-This corruption should NOT have happened, reiserfsck shouldn't
> have to be used.
> 	-I'm not a kernel hacker, so I can't try anything...what I know is
> that
> 		/etc in hc5 doesn't work. /usr, /var....works correctly.
> 
> Well, I'd like to know what's happened in my drive. Can somebody try to
> give an explanation?

I've seen this happen when being careless about partitioning my drive.  If
you changed your partition table and created the filesystem without a reboot
you could be in for this problem.  If fdisk was unable to update the
partition table after writing it out and you ran mkreiserfs, you just made a
filesystem on the *old* partition, according to the *old* partition table.
Upon rebooting, the disk will be synced to the new partition table.  If you
happened to shrink the parition a bit, the filsystem is suddenly longer than
the partition.

Ross Vandegrift
ross@willow.seitz.com
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