ext3 mount failing due to bad superblock.

2013-11-09 Thread darkestkhan
I created ext3 on sda1 (using mke2fs -j) and it worked for last 20 days. But after tiday reboot it stopped working - if it would be bad entry in fstab I would still be able to mount it by hand, but I can't. I have some data on it that I would rather not lose (I don't have enough space to make

Re: ext3 mount failing due to bad superblock.

2013-11-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
If you have your original debian net-inst dvd, it's probably time to put the dvd into the drive then reboot the computer into rescue mode. Then run fsck.ext4 -c /dev/sda1 enter and watch the fun. This will use badblocks nondestructively and set off a repair operation which should end up with

Re: ext3 mount failing due to bad superblock.

2013-11-09 Thread darkestkhan
On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net wrote: If you have your original debian net-inst dvd, it's probably time to put the dvd into the drive then reboot the computer into rescue mode. Funny thing (actually not so) - my optic drive is dead. But why do I have to

Re: ext3 mount failing due to bad superblock.

2013-11-09 Thread Curt
On 2013-11-09, darkestkhan darkestk...@gmail.com wrote: I created ext3 on sda1 (using mke2fs -j) and it worked for last 20 days. But after tiday reboot it stopped working - if it would be bad entry in fstab I would still be able to mount it by hand, but I can't. I have some data on it that I

Re: ext3 mount failing due to bad superblock.

2013-11-09 Thread David F
On 11/09/2013 04:09 AM, darkestkhan wrote: Funny thing (actually not so) - my optic drive is dead. But why do I have to reboot into recovery mode? System itself works correctly - /boot is on sda2 and everything else is on LVM at sda3 If I understand you correctly that you can boot and use