Hello, FYI [still in progress] In another try, the disk '/dev/sdb' was accessed. using 'tar' to make a copy of the files it could access to another disk.. . tar error-ed on some files and kept going to next file. [till end of files on disk] At least I could get a copy of accessible files that way. So some metadata has worked. space: # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb 1.8T 747G 1.0T 43% /media/disk [entire disk reiser4] /dev/sdc1 932G 443G 489G 48% /media/disk2 # command used: # tar -cvf /media/disk2/r4files.tar /media/disk | tee /media/disk2/r4files-sdb.log --Glenn example: /media/disk/opensuse/11.4/rpms/kdesvn-1.5.5-3.2.i586.rpm /media/disk/opensuse/11.4/rpms/kdesvn-1.5.5-3.2.x86_64.rpm tar: /media/disk/opensuse/11.4/rpms/kdetoys4-4.6.0-3.1.i586.rpm: File removed before we read it tar: /media/disk/opensuse/11.4/rpms/kdetoys4-4.6.0-3.1.x86_64.rpm: File removed before we read it /media/disk/opensuse/11.4/rpms/kdeutils4-4.6.0-3.4.i586.rpm /media/disk/opensuse/11.4/rpms/kdeutils4-4.6.0-3.4.x86_64.rpm /media/disk/opensuse/11.4/rpms/kdevelop4-4.2.0-3.6.1.x86_64.rpm /media/disk/opensuse/11.4/rpms/kdevelop4-4.2.0-3.6.1.i586.rpm tar: /media/disk/opensuse/11.4/rpms/kdevelop4-devel-4.2.0-3.6.1.i586.rpm: File removed before we read it tar: /media/disk/opensuse/11.4/rpms/kdevelop4-devel-4.2.0-3.6.1.x86_64.rpm: File removed before we read it /media/disk/opensuse/11.4/rpms/kdevelop4-lang-4.2.0-3.6.1.noarch.rpm tar: /media/disk/opensuse/11.4/rpms/kdevelop4-pg-qt-devel-0.9.0-3.1.x86_64.rpm: File removed before we read it tar: /media/disk/opensuse/11.4/rpms/kdevelop4-pg-qt-devel-0.9.0-3.1.i586.rpm: File removed before we read it /media/disk/opensuse/11.4/rpms/kdevelop4-pg-qt-0.9.0-3.1.x86_64.rpm /media/disk/opensuse/11.4/rpms/kdevelop4-pg-qt-0.9.0-3.1.i586.rpm /media/disk/opensuse/11.4/rpms/kdevelop4-plugins-php-1.2.0-2.2.i586.rpm /media/disk/opensuse/11.4/rpms/kdevelop4-plugins-php-1.2.0-2.2.x86_64.rpm tar: /media/disk/opensuse/11.4/rpms/kdevelop4-plugins-php-doc-1.2.0-2.2.x86_64.rpm: File removed before we read it tar: /media/disk/opensuse/11.4/rpms/kdevelop4-plugins-php-doc-1.2.0-2.2.i586.rpm: File removed before we read it /media/disk/opensuse/11.4/rpms/kdevplatform-1.2.0-2.2.i586.rpm /media/disk/opensuse/11.4/rpms/kdevplatform-1.2.0-2.2.x86_64.rpm /media/disk/opensuse/11.4/rpms/kdevplatform-lang-1.2.0-2.2.noarch.rpm tar: /media/disk/opensuse/11.4/rpms/kdewebdev3-3.5.10-26.1.i586.rpm: File removed before we read it tar: /media/disk/opensuse/11.4/rpms/kdewebdev3-3.5.10-26.1.x86_64.rpm: File removed before we read it -- 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