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:
---------- # 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 ----------
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:
---------- 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 ----------
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?