On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 20:42:26 -0500, "Eddy" <eddygeez@nospammail.net> said: > Using the 'istat' tool, I can't access many of the inodes on /dev/hda1. > Some inodes work fine, but large contigiuous clusters of inodes return > an error like this: > > # istat /dev/hda1 1 > istat: read random seek error: offset 4209880301568: Invalid argument > # istat /dev/hda1 2 > istat: read random seek error: offset 4209880301696: Invalid argument > # istat /dev/hda1 3 > istat: read random seek error: offset 4209880301824: Invalid argument > > This is in stark contrast to any of the other filesystems on the drive, > where 'istat' has no problem reading information about any inode. Still hoping there is some ext2/ext3 guru who can provide some insight here. Failing that, is there another mailing list where I might have better luck getting info on how to try and recover my data? Thanks, Eddy -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access your email from home and the web _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users