Thanks, what does fsck -f do and how is e2fsck different from fsck? On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 11:55:18AM -0400, Shashi Kanbur wrote: > > > the whole raid array is gone. The file system is consistent and is > > the right size but no directories! > > > > Running fsck on it just comes back ok. > > Did you do "fsck -f"? > > > Should I try a later e2fsck which can handle ext3. > > e2fsck would complain loudly if it wasn't already able to handle ext3. > > > Has the > > journal inode been deleted? > > No, not if the mount succeeds. > > > SHould I try and remount as an ext2 system > > and rerun fsck? > > It's unlikely to help. > > Cheers, > Stephen > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shashi Kanbur shashi@fcrao1.astro.umass.edu Five College Astronomy Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 USA (413) 577 0470 (413) 545 4223 (Fax) _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users