On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 08:16:23AM -0400, Adam Atlas wrote: > I have a damaged Ext3 filesystem which fsck has not been able to > recover. If I try to mount it, I get a message like this in dmesg: > > EXT3-fs error (device sda1): ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already > cleared for block 2370866 > > If I try fsck on it, I get a series of messages like this: > > Inode bitmap for group 0 is not in group. (block 0) > Relocate<y>? > > Up to group 95. Some say "SEVERE DATA LOSS POSSIBLE." I backed up the > filesystem and tried answering yes to all of them; it ended up just > erasing the whole thing. So I have a backup with the data intact but > with a broken filesystem. (Unfortunately I don't have a backup from > when this filesystem was working.) Is there anything I can do now to > repair the filesystem, or at least recover some data? I have made a repair extension to debugfs, available at http://std.dkuug.dk/keld/readme-salvage.html Best regards keld _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
