>>>>> "Theodore" == Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> writes: Theodore> Were you trying to recover the filesystme using e2fsck? Theodore> What version of e2fsck were you using? And what messages Theodore> did e2fsck print out? First I got errors from the ide subsystem when trying to mount the fs; rebooting from the suse 7.3 install cd into rescue mode I tried first to mount then (after another reboot) to e2fsck(8). All e2fsck printed was that it was recovering the journal; all of the errors were printk()s from ide indicating hardware errors reading the relevant sectors. e2fsck was of course stuck in D state. The version on the rescue ramdisk is probably e2fsprogs-1.24a, as the cds include e2fsprogs-1.24-11.src.rpm. The disk is failing and will be replaced, but I've been keeping it going until that happens. -JimC
