In gmane.linux.debian.user, you wrote: > Hello! > > I lost my partition. One of my most important ones... > It is a 100gb partition with all my personal datas, emails, documents etc... > I had a crash in kde, and I had to reset the computer. After the boot, the > boot process said that it can not mount /dev/hda2. Unfortunatelly, I can not > write you exactly the output, because I can't copy/paste, so I have just my > brain to remember the lines. > It says Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev ide0(3,2). > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2, > or too many mounted file systems. > > When I type cfdisk /dev/hda it can not detect that /dev/hda2 is an ext3 fs, > so under the FS Type column it writes Linux, instead of Linux ext3. I had a > problem like this before with another filesystem. The problem was EXACTLY > the same. Crash -> reboot -> can not mount.... But then probably I made a > huge mistake: typed fsck /dev/hda1. It asked me a lot (realy lot), so I > ctrl+c'd, and typed fsck -y /dev/hda1. It worked a lot (20-30mins), and > wrote a lot of things, like bad imagic number (or like that), and wrong > inode etc... but the question was always the same: Clear?<y>. I couldn't > choose. Yes, clear... After fsck finished, I had a still unusable partition, > could not mount it, and couldn't fix it, because after that, every time I typed > fsck /dev/hda2, it said can not find superblock, specify another superblock > with -B option. I tried a lot of number but neither of them worked. So I > lost that partition. > I _don't_ want to lose this partition. I need this partition. Half of my > life is in this partition. Please someone help, what should I do to preserve > the data on my partition. > > Very big thanks! > > Daniel > > Maybe you have a block size other than 1024? That will influence what the superblock numbers are. Try 'mke2fs -n /dev/hda2' and be *sure* to include the '-n' so that you don't get rid of the filesystem!! That switch gives the info on the filesystem including the list of superblocks. Anita
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