Anyone confronted the issue where a machine lost power and both the journal and ext filesystem underneath have errors?
To fix the ext3 filesystem, fsck normally applies the journal first but as that's also corrupt, things don't play.
 
I have restored the system from the last backup but have kept a "dd" of the filesystem so I can play later as a loopback.
 
It appears that the journal starts at block 0 and debugfs won't let you touch block 0 so I can't just remove the inode and/or the journal file.
 
Should I delete the filesystem copy as there is absolutely nothgin to be done or is there some fun learning to be had?
 
Brett.
 

Brett Davidson : RHCE, MCSE, SCSA, NZCE(Electronics&Computing), TC(Electronics)
Systems Support Specialist
HP Christchurch, New Zealand

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