Re: ext3 recovery

[Andrei Ivanov]

>
> On Nov 13, 2002  19:13 +0200, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
> > Hello, I have an ext3 formated partition on a harddrive that just got tons
> > of badblocks and I'm trying to recover as much data as possible from that
> > partition.
> > If I try e2fsck /dev/hdb3 I get this error:
> >
> > e2fsck 1.32 (09-Nov-2002)
> > Group descriptors look bad... trying backup blocks...
> > e2fsck: Invalid argument while checking ext3 journal for /
> >
> > So I tried to remove the journal and make e2fsck treat the partition as an
> > ext2 one, but no luck, although tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hdb3 doesn't
> > give me any message, except it's version string.
> >
> > If I pass fsck the backup superblock myself, it still refuses to run:
> > e2fsck -b 32768 /dev/hdb3
> > e2fsck: Invalid argument while checking ext3 journal for /
> >
> > Attached you will find some info (dmesg and hdparm). If you need any more
> > info, tell me.
>
> I would suggest "dd if=bad_drive of=good_drive conv=sync,noerror"
> and then do all of your recovery on the good drive.
>
> Cheers, Andreas
> --
> Andreas Dilger
> http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/

I've finally managed to get a hard drive to do this, but I receive the
same errors... :(

Do you have any other suggestions ?
Thanks