Unable to mount / (ext error 22) [plug]

[speedster]

Whoops, forgot the subject... (using a web-based email atm)

>Quite likely :-(
>If you did a "fsck -n -f" it'll be fine, but if you did a read/write 
>fsck things might not be so happy. 13 hours strikes me as an 
>amazingly 
>long time... something funny must be going on.

Yeah I thought so too. During the inode pass there was a lot of disk
activity, but during directory scan there's little to none - and fsck
can't be interrupted with a ctrl-c (as a last resort). I did stop it
last night and on starting it this morning it didn't look like it
actually fixed anything (bar the bad superblock).

>OTOH, it might not be disk geometry that's the problem - in which 
>case 
>all bets are off.

The fact it actually prints the filenames (eg
/usr/lib/python-2.2blahblah) to me indicates it is reading the
directory structure properly.

I managed to get a copy of my DNS zone from my secondary ns (bind
forever!) so the only real loss is my website (not as though that was
really important though!)

---- Original Message ----
From: craig at postnewspapers.com.au
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au, 
Subject: Re: [plug]
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 21:01:20 +0800

>> I have a funny feeling that the BIOS detected the wrong translation
>> type (LARGE) for the disk, instead of using CHS or LBA 
>(unfortunately
>> I can't remember what it was using on the old P166), and if so - 
>has
>> fsckíng the drive possibly destroyed the data completely?
>
>Quite likely :-(
>If you did a "fsck -n -f" it'll be fine, but if you did a read/write 
>fsck things might not be so happy. 13 hours strikes me as an 
>amazingly 
>long time... something funny must be going on.
>
>> Just want
>> to know if there's a possible way I could retrieve anything off the
>> partition before formatting it. (I had my website, DNS zone files,
>> firewall config, dhcp config etc. on there, no backup)
>
>Hard to say. Maybe if you can get the geometry right then mount the 
>partition - otherwise, I can only think "disk editor".
>
>OTOH, it might not be disk geometry that's the problem - in which 
>case 
>all bets are off.
>
>
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