Hi, >Well, "restore from backup"... - I suppose I can survive without it. Would have used RAID, had I needed an insurance policy. I am more concerned about not finding the cause and having the same experience repeated next time. - The error sequence started when a user tried to access some data using samba. Noticing some strange delay, he cancelled the request, however samba (?) seemed to have entered some retry loop, trying to access various inodes/blocks for about 1 hour, and filling the log with errors. - Logs, lastcomm etc. revealed no user activity at all around the time of the first ext3 crash (never mind reformat, repartition etc.) - Since last time, I ran a tool called e2salvage on the partition. It crashed with segmentation fault while recovering directories (I wonder if it has anything to do with the cache in the ext3 journal). E2salvage recommends operating on a partition backup, however, since size > 40G ... No change in e2fsck output. - About the partition table, fdisk /dev/hda complains (as usual) about the number of cylinders exceeding 1024. A partition table check returns "372 unallocated sectors", nothing else. - I have also run a badblocks read-only test on /dev/hda9 - no errors. >A few interesting tidbits would be the first few kB of "od -Ax -tx4 >/dev/hda9" >and if you download the e2fsprogs source and build the "findsuper" tool, >it may be able to shed a bit of light on what happened to your filesystem. #od -Ax -tx4 /dev/hda9 000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 * 000200 9a038c08 9476785f 49bf458f c00096e3 000210 c0dd9d88 df60366d f7ad5d48 2432d146 000220 cd952938 a2d228ad 57f389dc decf21d9 000230 d31f8edf 19863e30 2f9c1e64 36d8b495 000240 4d4bdf55 31fb24cd bfe3b8e8 436dff0d 000250 43640232 a71269b4 dacc53f4 f760eb02 000260 68d0dd63 2ab8971b 14c97c3b 44d7ef04 000270 34b362cd 827354da dd585d3f 47ec2c14 000280 108fc1ef a0188d00 98a5ede5 5a4b9a43 000290 6ce17b7d cf5b848a cb26031a 3ade1754 0002a0 e4c18c09 c97600ea 2e40867a 28569659 0002b0 5a86849c dbc862b7 dce57ae2 06e53156 0002c0 2163ab53 0470cf48 642c2d18 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