My UPS failed and my server took an 'unscheduled outage' a few weeks ago. The only casualty appears to be a volume I used for backup. I usually maintain data on multiple hard disks, but in this case I errantly had some data (of marginal value) on this file system. At this point, the data is not worth enough for me to send the drive out for data recovery, but it's worth enough to make me want to try to recover it. Here's what's happening: [root@marvin root]# mount /dev/hdb1 /backup mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1, or too many mounted file systems [root@marvin root]# fsck /dev/hdb1 fsck 1.32 (09-Nov-2002) e2fsck 1.32 (09-Nov-2002) fsck.ext2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while checking ext3 journal for /backup I thought removing the journal might help. I doubt that the files that interest me were open at the time. [root@marvin root]# tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hdb1 tune2fs 1.32 (09-Nov-2002) The needs_recovery flag is set. Please run e2fsck before clearing the has_journal flag. Any ideas? Thanks! Tom [root@marvin download]# ide-smart /dev/hdb1 Id= 3 Status=39 {Prefailure Online } Value=219 Threshold= 63 Passed Id= 4 Status=50 {Advisory Online } Value=253 Threshold= 0 Passed Id= 5 Status=51 {Prefailure Online } Value=240 Threshold= 63 Passed Id= 6 Status= 1 {Prefailure OffLine} Value=253 Threshold=100 Passed Id= 7 Status=10 {Advisory Online } Value=253 Threshold= 0 Passed Id= 8 Status=39 {Prefailure Online } Value=250 Threshold=187 Passed Id= 9 Status=50 {Advisory Online } Value=208 Threshold= 0 Passed Id= 10 Status=43 {Prefailure Online } Value=253 Threshold=157 Passed Id= 11 Status=43 {Prefailure Online } Value=253 Threshold=223 Passed Id= 12 Status=50 {Advisory Online } Value=253 Threshold= 0 Passed Id=192 Status=50 {Advisory Online } Value=253 Threshold= 0 Passed Id=193 Status=50 {Advisory Online } Value=253 Threshold= 0 Passed Id=194 Status=50 {Advisory Online } Value=253 Threshold= 0 Passed Id=195 Status=10 {Advisory Online } Value=253 Threshold= 0 Passed Id=196 Status= 8 {Advisory OffLine} Value=149 Threshold= 0 Passed Id=197 Status= 8 {Advisory OffLine} Value=240 Threshold= 0 Passed Id=198 Status= 8 {Advisory OffLine} Value=145 Threshold= 0 Passed Id=199 Status= 8 {Advisory OffLine} Value=199 Threshold= 0 Passed Id=200 Status=10 {Advisory Online } Value=253 Threshold= 0 Passed Id=201 Status=10 {Advisory Online } Value=253 Threshold= 0 Passed Id=202 Status=10 {Advisory Online } Value=253 Threshold= 0 Passed Id=203 Status=11 {Prefailure Online } Value=253 Threshold=180 Passed Id=204 Status=10 {Advisory Online } Value=253 Threshold= 0 Passed Id=205 Status=10 {Advisory Online } Value=253 Threshold= 0 Passed Id=207 Status=42 {Advisory Online } Value=253 Threshold= 0 Passed Id=208 Status=42 {Advisory Online } Value=253 Threshold= 0 Passed Id=209 Status=36 {Advisory OffLine} Value=195 Threshold= 0 Passed Id= 99 Status= 4 {Advisory OffLine} Value=253 Threshold= 0 Passed Id=100 Status= 4 {Advisory OffLine} Value=253 Threshold= 0 Passed Id=101 Status= 4 {Advisory OffLine} Value=253 Threshold= 0 Passed OffLineStatus=2 {Completed}, AutoOffLine=No, OffLineTimeout=5 minutes OffLineCapability=91 {Immediate Auto SuspendOnCmd} SmartRevision=16, CheckSum=219, SmartCapability=3 {SaveOnStandBy AutoSave} [root@marvin download]# uname -a Linux marvin 2.4.21-15.EL #1 Sun May 16 02:45:06 EDT 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users