On Mittwoch, 16. April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:

>
> It's very bad. It indicates file system corruption on the ReiserFS. In
> my experience, I have never seen this to be followed by a clean
> recovery.
>
> You can try reiser.fsck with --rebuild-tree (after suitably enough
> research and googling) and see what gives.

only after checking the harddisk. Because if --rebuild-tree runs into bad
blocks or other hardware damage, he is really screwed.

>
> Sorry for the bad news.
>
> > Is there anyway to shutdown cleanly?
>
> 'shutdown -h now' ?

that won't work in his case.

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