[Nottingham] Filesystem Death

[Jim Driscoll]

Hello,

On 26 Nov 2003, at 17:57, Philip Scott wrote:

>
> First of all, the obvious:
> # e2fsck /dev/hda4
> e2fsck 1.34 (25-Jul-2003)
> /dev/hda4 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced.
> Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
> Bad block 0 used as bad block indirect block?!?
>
> # e2fsck -c /dev/hda4
> e2fsck 1.34 (25-Jul-2003)
> ext2fs_block_iterate: Ext2 file too big while sanity checking the bad 
> blocks
> inode
>
> debugfs:  cd /
> /: Ext2 inode is not a directory
>
>

Bleh. I'm not a filesystem expert, but you could try replacing the 
superblock with one of the backup copies (assuming that works at all). 
I always thought "bad blocks" was something below filesystem level (as 
controlled by the 'badblocks' binary).

Jim