Hello. Regarding: Are you sure /media/disk mountpoint exists? If it does, what shows up from /proc/partitions? Is sdb a removable disk? Do you have udev running?.. - Are you sure /media/disk mount point exists ? yes # ll /media/disk total 0 - what shows up from /proc/partitions ? # ll /proc/partitions -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 23 07:40 /proc/partitions # cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 8 0 62522712 sda 8 1 18217678 sda1 8 2 12546765 sda2 8 3 29295173 sda3 8 4 2462720 sda4 11 0 1048575 sr0 8 16 1953514584 sdb - Do you have udev running ? # ps -ef | grep -i udev root 281 1 0 Feb22 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-udevd - By the way, did you try to run fsck on this disk ever since 08/26 last year? yes with --check option then used # fsck.reiser4 --build-fs --force /dev/sdb # fsck.reiser4 --check /dev/sdb ******************************************************************* This is an EXPERIMENTAL version of fsck.reiser4. Read README first. ******************************************************************* Fscking the /dev/sdb block device. Will check the consistency of the Reiser4 SuperBlock. Will check the consistency of the Reiser4 FileSystem. Continue? (Yes/No): yes ***** fsck.reiser4 started at Mon Feb 23 01:34:22 2015 Reiser4 fs was detected on /dev/sdb. Master super block (16): magic: ReIsEr4 blksize: 4096 format: 0x0 (format40) uuid: 3006ced1-7490-4ea8-a9b8-d82143c6bede label: <none> Format super block (17): plugin: format40 description: Disk-format plugin. version: 0 magic: ReIsEr40FoRmAt mkfs id: 0x1ddaf754 flushes: 0 blocks: 488378640 free blocks: 217146980 root block: 37017218 tail policy: 0x2 (smart) next oid: 0xedade file count: 188313 tree height: 6 key policy: LARGE CHECKING THE STORAGE TREE Read nodes 197008413 Nodes left in the tree 197008413 Leaves of them 194764277, Twigs of them 2217790 Time interval: Mon Feb 23 01:36:17 2015 - Mon Feb 23 09:24:11 2015 CHECKING EXTENT REGIONS. ] 5%CHECKING THE STORAGE TREE Read nodes 197008413 Nodes left in the tree 197008413 Leaves of them 194764277, Twigs of them 2217790 Time interval: Mon Feb 23 01:36:17 2015 - Mon Feb 23 09:24:11 2015 Read twigs 2217790 Time interval: Mon Feb 23 09:24:11 2015 - Mon Feb 23 11:34:13 2015 CHECKING THE SEMANTIC TREE FSCK: semantic.c: 573: repair_semantic_dir_open: Failed to recognize the plugin for the directory [29:0:2a]. FSCK: semantic.c: 651: repair_semantic_root_prepare: No root directory opened. Time interval: Mon Feb 23 11:34:13 2015 - Mon Feb 23 11:34:13 2015 FSCK: repair.c: 550: repair_sem_fini: On-disk used block bitmap and really used block bitmap differ. ***** fsck.reiser4 finished at Mon Feb 23 11:34:13 2015 Closing fs...done 2 fatal corruptions were detected in FileSystem. Run with --build-fs option to fix them. # Next: ===== run the following command and result is: # fsck.reiser4 --build-fs --force /dev/sdb ******************************************************************* This is an EXPERIMENTAL version of fsck.reiser4. Read README first. ******************************************************************* Fscking the /dev/sdb block device. Will check the consistency of the Reiser4 SuperBlock. Will build the Reiser4 FileSystem. ***** fsck.reiser4 started at Mon Feb 23 13:09:25 2015 Reiser4 fs was detected on /dev/sdb. Master super block (16): magic: ReIsEr4 blksize: 4096 format: 0x0 (format40) uuid: 3006ced1-7490-4ea8-a9b8-d82143c6bede label: <none> Format super block (17): plugin: format40 description: Disk-format plugin. version: 0 magic: ReIsEr40FoRmAt mkfs id: 0x1ddaf754 flushes: 0 blocks: 488378640 free blocks: 217146980 root block: 37017218 tail policy: 0x2 (smart) next oid: 0xedade file count: 188313 tree height: 6 key policy: LARGE CHECKING THE STORAGE TREE Read nodes 197008413 Nodes left in the tree 197008413 Leaves of them 194764277, Twigs of them 2217790 Time interval: Mon Feb 23 13:11:21 2015 - Mon Feb 23 21:10:47 2015 CHECKING EXTENT REGIONS. Read twigs 2217790 Time interval: Mon Feb 23 21:10:47 2015 - Mon Feb 23 23:20:58 2015 LOOKING FOR UNCONNECTED NODES FSCK: node.c: 108: repair_node_items_check: Node (43828275), items (0) and (1): Wrong order of keys. FSCK: node.c: 108: repair_node_items_check: Node (52697435), items (79) and (80): Wrong order of keys. FSCK: node.c: 108: repair_node_items_check: Node (63227569), items (24) and (25): Wrong order of keys. FSCK: node.c: 108: repair_node_items_check: Node (63227571), items (73) and (74): Wrong order of keys. FSCK: node.c: 108: repair_node_items_check: Node (116595727), items (20) and (21): Wrong order of keys. FSCK: node.c: 108: repair_node_items_check: Node (227923161), items (22) and (23): Wrong order of keys. FSCK: node.c: 108: repair_node_items_check: Node (284305753), items (61) and (62): Wrong order of keys. Read nodes 1481038 Good nodes 471512 Leaves of them 466164, Twigs of them 5348 Time interval: Mon Feb 23 23:21:14 2015 - Mon Feb 23 23:24:57 2015 ***** fsck.reiser4 finished at Mon Feb 23 23:24:57 2015 Closing fs...done FS is consistent. # mount /dev/sdb /media/disk mount: mount(2) failed: No such file or directory Some questions: =============== - What is the next step so I can access this disk/volume ? - Is this related to a bug in fsck: it jumps to wrong branch ? - Is there any patches so it jumps to correct branch I could use ? Thanks four help and assistance. --Glenn References: http://www.spinics.net/lists/reiserfs-devel/msg04662.html http://www.spinics.net/lists/reiserfs-devel/msg04206.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html