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thanks for helping out, although it seems that doing nothing was the method for triumph this time. See, indifference yet again prevails to an acceptable resolve :D . My precious files all seem to be here. Well, everything might not all be peachy, I haven't actually tried booting Mandrake yet, still in Redhat, but was able to mount my /home partition fine. I think ignoring e2fsck and letting the journal recover did the trick actually, idk. I remember opening a terminal window in redhat and trying e2fsck -b 32768 /dev/hdb7 or something and just left it at that :huh: ... I'm kinda confused.... but happy that everything is fine (at least on the surface). I will back up my data for sure, and install that Seagate utility just to make sure that my drive is a safe place for my 1s and 0s.

I'm trying to understand the moral of the story here; I think the most obvious is backing up data, but I'm wondering after all of this, is should I junk my 2nd hard drive? Is this really due to poor hardware? If I keep it, will it happen again? What preventitive measures can I take so that my hard drives don't crap out on me? I still have to answer yes or no to fixing the Inodes that "were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found" Any ideas? will this destroy my data?

Back when I had Suse 8.2, I had reiserfs, no problems with it though I didn't have it long enough to see if things would ever fall apart. Windows 98 would eventually kamikaze my system and I never reinstalled Suse. I got redhat so I could install the planet ccrma packages; redhat 9 doesn't have the option of reiserfs so I stuck it out with ext3 - never had problems till now.

yes I do have mke2fs, but not to create a new filesystem of course but just to check out backup superblocks and I also wanted to check my blocksizes just in case I need that info. Oh almost forgot to mention that the -b option returns a bad block size, does this really mean I'm screwed or is it possible to use an alternate superblock and fix the damage?

I seem to be fairing slightly better in rh I've never seen this in mdk when I try e2fsck, I wonder if I have mke2fs as well. Anyways, what should I answer? y or n?

my hdb drive looks to parted like this Trying to do a simple check on hdb7 with parted results with: The fstab file looks like this:

Hi, thanks for replying When trying to mount in rh I get . What are the tools to use for partitions besides parted? My first option is to recover my data; won't parted wipe my paritition clean?I haven't mentioned how this came to pass, but even mentioning won't really clarify things. I usually leave my computer on all day, so when I came home and moved the mouse to wake up the computer kde was running very slowly. I had gimp, quanta, xine and konqueror running so I figured that my memory was gobbled up. I saw that my hard drive led would flicker once and a while so I figured the system was using swap. I tried to close down my applications but kde was just too slow so I gave up and rebooted. Smartbootmanager came up and I looked for hd1 but it wasn't there, I rebooted and checked bios to see that that too couldn't find my poor hard drive. I powered down, opened the case and checked the connections, but everything seemed fine. Powered up again and bios saw my 2nd hard drive, but couldn't boot up Mdk due to my ext3 filesystem problems.

one annoyance to this is that I don't seem to have mke2fs. I checked my fstab file and deleted a couple of lines for samba mounts, but I doubt that 's the trouble maker.

[edit] didn't realize if was put on a new thread already um... just ignore this.... Mandrake is great!

Thanks, I'll take your word for it, new thread it is.... :D [edit] ............ oh it is on a new thread, I wish I didn't start another thread..................oops

This is my first post here, so I'll say Hello to all of you. I'm glad to find a great community here, and I hope to get some help here (and point others here as well). I'd like to resurrect this thread if I may, as I have a similar dilemma. I've been using Mandrake 9.2 steadily for awhile on my 2nd ide drive, while I tinker away at my redhat 9 install on my 1st drive (planet CCRMA, installing xfce4, etc.). Mandrake is my sanctuary while I continually experiment and break my redhat. I don't really do anything risky so I never expected to find problems, and thanks to my ignorance, I never backed up my data. So, my Mandy partitions: hdb1 - /boot hdb2 - / hdb3 - swap hdb5 - /usr hdb6 - /var hdb7 - /home all except for swap (obviously) are ext3 The problem is with hdb7, no! my precious files!! I wait to see if anything happens but nothing. I try no and I get error! and I either log in my superuser password or type ctrl-D. So I try to e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/hdb7 and I just get the error message repeated, by some process of elimination I get to e2fsck -b 32768 /dev/hdb7 and then I get So... what do I do next? Is there any hope of recovering my /home partition with data intact?