I have a CentOS 5.6 system (recently installed) that, for some
reason, has decided to mangle one of its drives, specifically /dev/hde1
... No errors anywhere, just rebooted the machine over the weekend and
it's gone. Up till the reboot, the drive was fine, I was writing to it
without a problem.
fdisk tells me:
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# fdisk -l /dev/hde
Disk /dev/hde: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20673 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hde1 * 1 20673 156287848+ 83 Linux
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There are no hardware errors in the boot log (dmesg). The only
error is that it can't find the ext3 fs that was on that drive.
Unfortunately, it's not a drive I can simply reformat and call it a
day. There's data on it I need.
When I try to mount it, I get: hfs: unable to find HFS+
superblock. Obviously that's not right as the drive was formatted as an
ext3. So if I force it, I get this:
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mount -t ext3 /dev/hde1 /mnt/hde1
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hde1,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
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So, is this just an indication that the partition table is hosed?
Is there anything, any tool, any way of reading the data off of this
drive and put it elsewhere?