On Oct 24, 2002 10:00 -0600, Marius Zydyk wrote: > The problem: > ------------ > [root@angel root]# fsck -V -t ext3 /dev/hdg1 > fsck 1.26 (3-Feb-2002) > [/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /dev/hdg1] fsck.ext3 /dev/hdg1 > e2fsck 1.26 (3-Feb-2002) > Warning... fsck.ext3 for device /dev/hdg1 exited with signal 11. > > [root@angel root]# fsck.ext3 -V > e2fsck 1.26 (3-Feb-2002) > Using EXT2FS Library version 1.26, 3-Feb-2002 > > [root@angel root]# fsck.ext3 /dev/hdg1 > e2fsck 1.26 (3-Feb-2002) > Segmentation fault I would still guess that there is a RAM problem. Try removing half of your SIMMs at a time and see if that helps. I presume that there is nothing useful in dmesg output? > Anything I can do to get the data back and recover the partition? In a > pinch I could stitch together some disk space to copy the partition > contents somewhere and blow it away, then put it back, would that help > anything? (a relative newbie here, sorry if that's a dumb question...) Just move the drive over to another system and run the fsck there. I bet it will work. Failing that, you could compile a version of e2fsck which includes debugging symbols so that gdb prints out some more useful information. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users