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6 debugreiserfs - The debugging tool for the ReiserFS filesystem.
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9 debugreiserfs [ -dDJmoqpuSV ] [ -j device ] [ -B file ] [ -1 N ]
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14 debugreiserfs sometimes helps to solve problems with reiserfs filesys‐
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18 device is the special file corresponding to the device (e.g /dev/hdXX
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24 prints the contents of the journal. The option -p allows it to
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29 -d prints the formatted nodes of the internal tree of the filesys‐
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32 -D prints the formatted nodes of all used blocks of the filesystem.
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34 -m prints the contents of the bitmap (slightly useful).
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46 -p extracts the filesystem's metadata with debugreiserfs -p
47 /dev/xxx | gzip -c > xxx.gz. None of your data are packed unless
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49 this corruption is packed. You send us the output, and we use it
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54 -u builds the ReiserFS filesystem image with gunzip -c xxx.gz |
55 debugreiserfs -u /dev/image of the previously packed metadata
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68 This version of debugreiserfs has been written by Vitaly Fertman
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72 Please report bugs to the ReiserFS developers <reiserfs-devel@vger.ker‐
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74 kernel, patches, settings, all printed messages; check the syslog file
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82Reiserfsprogs 3.6.25 January 2009 DEBUGREISERFS(8)