On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 09:50:39AM -0800, John Freer wrote: > > 1. 120G ATA133 Drive. Unclean shutdown during power failure. > 2. XP2200, Via chipset ECS K7S5A Mobo, 1G ram. > 3. Drive broken into 3 partitions, / (hda2), /boot (hda1), and swap > (hda3). Bulk of the drive is in / (hda2). > 4. on reboot, unable to mount the / partition, boot halted. > 5. on next boot, used e2fsck by booting off of RHFC2 Disk 1 in > "linux rescue" mode. ie: e2fsck -vy /dev/hda2. Many errors reported, > including a statement that the journal was corrupted and needed to be > removed. Think it was fsck ver. 1.35. This is e2fsck as modified by Fedora Core, which is not the same as stock e2fsprogs, but this is one I haven't heard of before. > > +Crunched for about 10 minutes through passes 1A, 1B, 1C, and > started 1D. > +fsck hangs in the middle of pass 1D, then after approx. 20 > seconds hung seems to restart pass 1D. Hmm... that doesn't make any sense. I'm not sure what's going on. > IS THERE ANY WAY I CAN RUN e2fsck AND TRAP THE OUTPUT TO A FILE, > SAY, LIKE e2fsck -vy /dev/hda >> /tmp/output.txt ? How would I > format the syntax? Use the script command. See the script(1) man page for more details. > I'll be happy to do this and make all the data available if it > would help. The other thing that you can do that would be helpful is to run the command "e2image -r /dev/hda2 | bzip2 > hda2.e2i.bz2", and make hda2.e2i.bz2 available somewhere I can download it. This will save all of the metadata blocks, although none of the data blocks. So I will be able to see the names of your files in your directories, but not the conents of any of the files. (Not that I would reveal anything that I might find, but I want to make sure you know exactly what data you would be exporting.) This will allow me to try to replicate whatever you're seeing on my computer. One final thing; have you checked your kernel logs to see if there are any hard drive errors? E2fsck fundamentally assumes that the disk drive is good; that data written to the disk, if read later on, will be reliably returned. If there are hardware problems with your disk, that can ause all sorts of wierd problems. - Ted _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
