I'm sure I've mentioned reiser4 to anyone who I've happened to see in the past month or so. If you didn't know, it's been released. I could hardly contain my excitement. I downloaded the latest 2.6.9rc1 patch from
kernel.org and started compiling. I also got udev and the new shutdown system to boot (pun intended). Everything seemed to work OK. time to backup my home directory and try the bastard out:
cd /
tar -jcvpf /fatman/home.tar.bz2 home/
---blah blah blah---
Errors
Oh yes! I shouldn't leave the drive mounted with rw access.
umount /home
mount /home -r
tar -jxpvf /fatman/home.tar.bz2 home/
---blah blah blah---
umount /home
mkreiser4 /dev/hda5
---blah blah blah---
mount /home
tar -jxpvf /fatman/home.tar.bz2
Most of my files didn't appear. I felt faint. I checked through my command history:
tar -jxpvf /fatman/home.tar.bz2 home/
That's an 'x', not a 'c'. Damn letters had to be right next to each other. So most of my drive went to that great bit bucket in the sky. I immediately took a snapshot. Now I'm stuck here going through my drive block by block, looking for remnants of things I can scavenge.
Actually, I'm more surprised at how little I lost. I was pretty worried about losing all my email, but then I realised it was all spam and mail from you guys, so it wasn't a big loss. I recovered my bookmarks and liferea OPML list. My gaim history's gone, but maybe that's a good thing. I just need to get my lecture notes again, and D&D SRDs.