Re: Reiser FS organisation

From: Christopher Browne (cbbrowne@acm.org)
Date: 11/03/02 

From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
Date: 3 Nov 2002 17:37:09 GMT

The world rejoiced as happy.oyster@ariplex.com (Happy Oyster) wrote:
> I have a problem somehow related with security :
>
> Where is the data stored of a partition formatted with ReiserFS ?
>
> The problem arose as after some severe crashes (I could not rearrange
> installed software and run level values) the the original HDD1 had to
> be formatted and newly installed. All my user data are on HDD2 in a
> partition with ReiserFS and stayed there untouched.
>
> Now, after installation of the new system, linux "sees" the data
> partition, but it does not see any contents. The partition type is
> said to be "linux native". Changing that to "ReiserFS" is not possible
> without formatting - but formatting would destroy the existing data.
>
> How can I manage to get access to my data on HDD2 again ?

a) I don't think the matter has anything to do with security (at
least, you haven't described anything that seems to relate to
security).

b) You don't need to change anything.

# fdisk -l

Should show you that you've got some set of "native" Linux
filesystems. You'll just have to set up mount points and add
filesystems to /etc/fstab.

The filesystems should be there (unless the "severe crashes" destroyed
them) and you just need to mount them.

# mount -t reiserfs /dev/hdb1 /mnt/whatever1
# mount -t reiserfs /dev/hdb2 /mnt/whatever2
# mount -t reiserfs /dev/hdb3 /mnt/whatever3 

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