NAME
debugreiserfs - The debugging tool for the ReiserFS filesystem.
SYNOPSIS
debugreiserfs [ -dDJmoqpuSV ] [ -j device ] [ -B file ] [ -1 N ]
device
DESCRIPTION
debugreiserfs sometimes helps to solve problems with reiserfs filesystems. When run without options it prints the super block of the ReiserFS filesystem found on the device.
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device |
is the special file corresponding to the device (e.g /dev/hdXX for an IDE disk partition or /dev/sdXX for a SCSI disk partition). |
OPTIONS
-j device
prints the contents of the journal. The option -p allows it to pack the journal with other metadata into the archive.
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-J |
prints the journal header. | ||
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-d |
prints the formatted nodes of the internal tree of the filesystem. | ||
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-D |
prints the formatted nodes of all used blocks of the filesystem. | ||
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-m |
prints the contents of the bitmap (slightly useful). | ||
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-o |
prints the objectid map (slightly useful). |
-B file
takes the list of bad blocks stored in the internal ReiserFS tree and translates it into an ascii list written to the specified file.
-1 blocknumber
prints the specified block of the filesystem.
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-p |
extracts the filesystem’s metadata with debugreiserfs -p /dev/xxx | gzip -c > xxx.gz. None of your data are packed unless a filesystem corruption presents when the whole block having this corruption is packed. You send us the output, and we use it to create a filesystem with the same strucure as yours using debugreiserfs -u. When the data file is not too large, this usually allows us to quickly reproduce and debug the problem. | ||
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-u |
builds the ReiserFS filesystem image with gunzip -c xxx.gz | debugreiserfs -u /dev/image of the previously packed metadata with debugreiserfs -p. The result image is not the same as the original filesystem, because mostly only metadata were packed with debugreiserfs -p, but the filesystem structure is completely recreated. | ||
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-S |
When -S is not specified -p deals with blocks marked used in the filesystem bitmap only. With this option set debugreiserfs will work with the entire device. | ||
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-q |
When -p is in use, suppress showing the speed of progress. |
AUTHOR
This version of debugreiserfs has been written by Vitaly Fertman <vitaly [AT] namesys.com>.
BUGS
Please report bugs to the ReiserFS developers <reiserfs-devel [AT] vger.org>, providing as much information as possible--your hardware, kernel, patches, settings, all printed messages; check the syslog file for any related information.