Re: What did I do wrong? (Filesystem recovery with ReiserFS)
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 10:41:34AM -0400, James Herschel wrote:
> Why on earth would Reiserfs be in the Kernel for as long as it has if it
> wasn't any good?
Why are all sorts of things in the kernel? Because someone wants them
there.
The userland reisertools suck. Oh, wait, you already found that out. The
hard way.
> I find Knoppix to be a great tool when a system is unbootable, and it's
> normally not a good idea (very bad) to run an fsck on a mounted partition.
Thank you, I *do* know when it's safe to fsck a filesystem. But I can't
imagine Knoppix being good for much other than "gee whiz, it's Linux" type
of nonsense. It certainly wasn't impressive the last time I wasted an
afternoon with it.
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