On 05/10/2011 02:28 PM, Steve Clark wrote: > 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? > http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/surviving-a-linux-filesystem-failures.html -- 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/20110510/98791a83/attachment-0005.html>