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dedhart

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Registered: 2006-07-02

Posts: 123

filesystem is fscked! <journal inode missing>

I can no longer boot into my linux partition, I was trying to install ReactOS to an empty partition, I didn't think it would touch my other partitions, but nothing boots, I'm using knoppix right now, mounting /hda3 tells me 'mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda3,' dmesg says 'EXT3-fs: journal inode is deleted.'
Is there any way to salvage this or at least save some data before reformating?

chrismortimore

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From: Edinburgh, UK

Registered: 2006-07-15

Posts: 655

Re: filesystem is fscked! <journal inode missing>

If it is just the journal that is broken, try:
mount -t ext2 /dev/hda3 [mountpoint]

ext3 can be read by the ext2 driver, and it bypasses the journal data.  If that works, you can just cp your data off it.  As for recovering, I suppose you could try use "tune2fs" to remake the journal.  I'd recommend backing up first though if you can, just in case.

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