Hi, hoping that someone on this list can help me here is the Problem. After a crash it seems the journal could not be recovered. This is what mount gives: root@wuehlkiste:# mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb2 /mnt mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb2, or too many mounted file systems and this is the corresponding logfile-entry: Nov 27 11:16:13 wuehlkiste kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Nov 27 11:16:13 wuehlkiste kernel: 03:42: rw=0, want=66849792, limit=2498107 Nov 27 11:16:13 wuehlkiste kernel: JBD: IO error reading journal superblock Nov 27 11:16:13 wuehlkiste kernel: EXT3-fs: error loading journal. fsck failed as well: root@wuehlkiste:# fsck -f /dev/hdb2 fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) e2fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) /dev/hdb2: Invalid argument while reading block 16712447 /dev/hdb2: Invalid argument reading journal superblock fsck.ext2: Invalid argument while checking ext3 journal for /dev/hdb2 AT last here's what tune2fs -l gives: root@wuehlkiste:# tune2fs -l /dev/hdb2 tune2fs 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) Filesystem volume name: <none> Last mounted on: <not available> Filesystem UUID: 60ae4fae-f11b-4156-ade8-1aa1b63d3bc5 Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: has_journal filetype needs_recovery sparse_super Filesystem state: clean with errors Errors behavior: Continue Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 262144 Block count: 524112 Reserved block count: 26205 Free blocks: 185025 Free inodes: 242316 First block: 0 Block size: 4096 Fragment size: 4096 Blocks per group: 32768 Fragments per group: 32768 Inodes per group: 16384 Inode blocks per group: 512 Last mount time: Mon Nov 25 12:40:35 2002 Last write time: Mon Nov 25 13:49:25 2002 Mount count: 16 Maximum mount count: -1 Last checked: Sun Nov 17 18:40:27 2002 Check interval: 0 (<none>) Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root) Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root) First inode: 11 Inode size: 128 Journal UUID: <none> Journal inode: 8 Journal device: 0x0000 First orphan inode: 0 Even clearing the has_journal and needs_recovery flags produced the same output using fsck as above. Running e2salvage on this backup-partition (/dev/hdb1 is the 'real' partition, /dev/hdb2 was written using dd) didn't help much as well. Hoping for some suggestions how to safe my data, since last backup was two month old :-( Regards -- Stephan Wiehr http://www.asta.uni-sb.de/~lynx/ "Always remember: You're unique, just like everyone else." _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users