On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 23:24:33 +0100 "bill root" <pasdebill@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > e2fsck 1.34 (25-Jul-2003) > Group descriptors look bad... trying backup blocks... > Superblock has a bad ext3 journal (inode 8). > Clear<y>? yes I managed to reach that same point in completely unrelated way ... somehow irqs went foobar on my box and i did sysrq s u b ... after which my root fs was toasted. obviously some garbage was synced on the drive and all that fsck managed was to rescue a couple of files and put about 1/10 into lost+found. Most of the data was in digital heaven ... Luckily i have separate /usr /home /var partitions :) kernel 2.6.1 and fsck 1.34 -- Jure PeÄar _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users