ok, but just curious, if it is not cleanly umounted, mount shouldnt be able to mount it as ext2fs. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> To: <anandtiwari@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 7:08 PM Subject: Re: Ext3 journal corruption > On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 05:39:00PM -0600, anandtiwari@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I was having a ext3 filesystem with writeback. yesterday my system crashed > > and now when i try to mount it, it gives me "Invalid argument". Following > > is the command line > > #mount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /mnt/home > > > > i tried debugging it and later i found out, its was complaining about > > journaling inode. Is there any way to recover my files, i did clone the > > disk and mounted it as ext2 after few tries but there was nothing in it. > > any help or pointers will be appreciated, > > 1) Run e2fsck to correct any filesystem errors. This may remove the journal inode. > > 2) If it didn't, to be safe, remove the journal: > "tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hdXX" > > 3) Then recreate the journal: "tune2fs -j /dev/hdXX" > > Ted _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
