[ale] mandrake reiser fs crash

[Armsby John-G16665]

All,

I have mandrake 9.1 with reiserfs.  I also have one of those little USB disk on a stick things which works quite well with Mandrake.  Yesterday, I removed the stick without unmounting the filesystem.  Upon logging out, Linux proceeded to complain a lot with LDM_Validation error messages.  I could not escape out of it.  So of course I shut the machine off manually.

Upon reboot, Linux basically tries to fsck ext2.  If I am fast enough to type "N", I am stil in a "shell", with only a fraction of the file system visible.

My question is this, how does one "fix" a reiserfs?  It seems Linux wants to apply the ext2 fsck bandaid which really hoses things.  The good news is I have a partition Magic Image which I used to restore.  I have a working boot disk.  How do I fix the file system?  


John