Hey all, Had a power failure and subsequent ext3 disk corruptions. Attempting to fix, but not working. Its a 120 gig IDE disk, 3 partitions. /boot, /, and swap. Basically can't boot up since the box can't get to the system files in /usr/ or anything. So I'm booting off of a FC2 disk 1 in recovery mode and trying to fix the filesystem with e2fsck The boot partition cleaned up fine. The swap partition came back up when I did "/sbin/mkswap /dev/hda3" and "/sbin/swapon -a" I cannot, however, get fsck to run fully on /dev/hda2 (the main part of the drive). I run it and it goes through the first few recovery steps (1A, 1B, 1C), and then it comes to the problem. It lists a bunch of inodes (like 150) and asks: "Clone duplicate/bad blocks? (y)" I get about 6 of these messages with varying lists of inodes. I say yes, and fsck continues. But, after about 6 of these messages, the cycle of "Clone duplicate/bad blocks?" repeats. I looked closely at the listing of inodes, and the same 6 or so groupings of blocks are (i guess) asking to be cloned? So the program just loops, infinitely looping through the yes answers. (2 hours now). No difference if I go through manually and say no, don't clone the blocks. Just loops through the same lists. Some data: + I've got a gig of ram in the box, and (I think) swap space is on. + There may be some several 4 gig files that were corrupted. + By using top in another terminal, I find processor pegged at 99% What can I do to recover this drive? Thanks, John. ===== ----------------------------------- John J Freer 518.441.9647 / john_freer@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
