On Mon, 4 May 2009, Marcel Partap wrote: > check over it. Unmounting went successful, however fsck complained about > /dev/sdd4 still being mounted. After confirming (lsof, mtab, empty mount Have you checked /proc/mounts? mtab could be stale, lsof not seeing everything and the "empty mountpoint" could be some other mount on top of /home. > previous run of e2fsck with the -n was showing a bunch of stuff to fix, Do you still have that e2fsck output? > revealed the havoc that was done: ls -laR showed abundant I/O errors, Again: error messages would be helpful. > If someone can actually help me to get it back in the state it was > before invoking e2fsk, You did not take the dd image before the first e2fsck, hm? Now that you have a backup: a few days ago a tool called "extundelete"[0] has been annunced on ext3-users, maybe that can be of help recovering your fs. > For the record, i am running kernel 2.6.30 RC3 with gentoo's > e2fsprogs-1.41.3.. and i have not rebooted the system since the incident e2fsprogs-1.41.5 has been released recently, you might want to give it a shot. Christian. [0] http://extundelete.sf.net/ -- Perfect Forward Secrecy is when Bruce Schneier whispers something in your ear. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
