Thanks to Ted and several others, I was able to recover 100% of the corrupted file system that I posted about last week. (This was an >2TB ext3 file system that had been created in a MSDOS partition which had worked until the server was rebooted, at which time it wouldn't mount and fsck wouldn't fix the problem.) Based on the suggestions of various people here's what I did: 1) Upgraded to the latest version of GNU parted. The server is running Scientific Linux 4.3, a RHEL4 derived distribution with a 2.6.9 kernel. This distribution contained parted 1.6.19 whereas the latest release was 1.8.2. 2) Using parted 1.8.2, I removed the partition containing the corrupt file system. This was the only partition on the disk. 3) I then used the parted "rescue" command to recreate the partition. I gave it the original starting point at the start value and "-1s" as the ending value. After this, I was able to mount the file system as before, and all the files were there. The first thing I did was to copy the whole file system to another disk which completed without any errors. I have to admit that I don't fully understand why this worked. Clearly the combination of removing the partition and then rescuing it reset something that was fouling up the works before. Anyway, we're all very happy about this and we all appreciate the help we received from this list and elsewhere. I hope we'll be able to help you one day. Cordially, -- Jon Forrest Unix Computing Support College of Chemistry 173 Tan Hall University of California Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1460 510-643-1032 jlforrest@xxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
