On 05/10/2011 02:24 PM, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > 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? Have you tried using an alternate superblock? -- Stephen Clark *NetWolves* Sr. Software Engineer III Phone: 813-579-3200 Fax: 813-882-0209 Email: steve.clark at netwolves.com http://www.netwolves.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110510/4150b1c1/attachment-0005.html>