On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 17:55 -0700, Pritpaul Mahal wrote: > I recently had a hard drive failure, and was able to > recover everything except about 36 kilobytes. > Unfortunately, it seems there was > > important filesystem data there. The first time I ran > fsck, I got a bunch of messages about stuff not being > referenced or something (unfortunately I didn't have > the foresight to log the messages :-( so I can't type > them) Now when I run fsck, all I get is what I've > pasted below. Is there any chance at all of > recovering anything from the filesystem?
I think you're best chance of recovering anything at this point is to try to mount the file system read-only, and see what you are able to read. I'm afraid any attempt to make fsck complete will result in more files being lost. > (I did find this similar message: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01400.html > but wasn't sure how much of it was relevant so I > wanted to ask before trying anything) > > fsck.jfs version 1.1.7, 22-Jul-2004 > processing started: 7/13/2005 20.31.55 > The current device is: /dev/vg0/lvol0 > Open(...READ/WRITE EXCLUSIVE...) returned rc = 0 > Primary superblock is valid. > The type of file system for the device is JFS. > Block size in bytes: 4096 > Filesystem size in blocks: 84082688 > **Phase 0 - Replay Journal Log > LOGREDO: Log already redone! > logredo returned rc = 0 > **Phase 1 - Check Blocks, Files/Directories, and > Directory Entries > Duplicate reference to 1 block(s) beginning at offset > 1462022 found in file system object IA16. > Duplicate reference to 1 block(s) beginning at offset > 2255265 found in file system object IA16. > Inode A16 has references to cross linked blocks. > Duplicate reference to 4 block(s) beginning at offset > 2255268 found in file system object IA16. > Inode A16 has references to cross linked blocks. > Duplicate reference to 4 block(s) beginning at offset > 2255284 found in file system object IA16. > Inode A16 has references to cross linked blocks. > Duplicate reference to 4 block(s) beginning at offset > 1462024 found in file system object IA16. > Inode A16 has references to cross linked blocks. > Multiple metadata references to 1 blocks beginning at > offset 1462022 have been detected. > Multiple metadata references to 4 blocks beginning at > offset 1462024 have been detected. > Multiple metadata references to 1 blocks beginning at > offset 2255265 have been detected. > Multiple metadata references to 4 blocks beginning at > offset 2255268 have been detected. > Multiple metadata references to 4 blocks beginning at > offset 2255284 have been detected. > Duplicate block references have been detected in > Metadata. CANNOT CONTINUE. > Filesystem is dirty. > processing terminated: 7/13/2005 20:31:56 with > return code: 0 exit code: 4. > > > Thanks! > --Pritpaul -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the 'Do More With Dual!' webinar happening July 14 at 8am PDT/11am EDT. We invite you to explore the latest in dual core and dual graphics technology at this free one hour event hosted by HP, AMD, and NVIDIA. To register visit http://www.hp.com/go/dualwebinar _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jfs-discussion
