> Hi People...
> got a following "dead of alive" question:
> how to find a root block on a ReiserFS partition
> with a corrupted superblock?
>
> reiserfsprogs-3.x.0.9j simply writes -2^32
> there at start (reset_super_block) and then simply
> crashes when attempting to access to such mad place
> ... got nearly lost my main partition ...
>
>
The reiserfsck ---rebuild-tree will find the root block for you. Now that
you've rebuilt the super, run with --rebuild-tree and it should find
everything.
-chris
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