On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 04:27:22PM -0700, Chris Worley wrote: > I used ddrescue to copy /dev/md1 to a disk of sufficient size, and > re-ran e2fsck, and still get the error message that there's no root > file system (I've tried most every superblock): Using debugfs, copy out the the contents of "root inode"; since it might contain useful data, e2fsck didn't want to delete it out of hand. debugfs: dump <2> /tmp/contents-of-inode-2 Then purge the inode away: debugfs: clri <2> Then run e2fsck, and it will create a new root directory for you. Hope this helps! - Ted _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
