Thought I'd throw this out here just in case any of you get the urge to throw the hat of red to the wind and try out a Debian based distro instead.
It seems that Fedora Core uses some extensions to ext3 that most normal distros cannot understand. I encountered this a couple months ago in Debian, just this evening in Ubuntu, and in searching for the solution found a Mandrake user with a similar tale of woe. When trying to run e2fsck prior to mounting the filesystem, I was greeted with the following: e2fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) e2fsck: Filesystem has unsupported feature(s) (/dev/VolGroup00/data) e2fsck: Get a newer version of e2fsck! Being the long time TriLUGer that I am, my first instinct was to consult the oracle of Google. I read about the Mandrake guy telling of problems, but the flags he reported weren't there. I decided to compare the Fedora filesystem's features with those of a filesystem created by Ubuntu by using "tune2fs -l /dev/VolGroup00/data". It turns out, there were two flags present on the FC3 filesystem that weren't there on the Ubuntu version: large_file and resize_inode. I removed the both of them thusly: $ debugfs -w /dev/VolGroup00/data debugfs: features ^large_file debugfs: features ^resize_inode debugfs: quit Lo and behold, the e2fsck passed and the filesystem mounted. I hope this is of some help to some poor soul on this list, or anyone who might happen across it in a Google search. All the best, Kevin Otte, N8VNR [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nivex.net/ -=- "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -- George Santayana "It seems no one reads Santayana anymore." -- Cdr. Susan Ivanova, Babylon 5 -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc