Hey Chris, Nice to know you got your issue fixed. :)
And yes, I strongly recommend going for ext4 support, but you're using kernel 2.6.18, and it was introduced (unstable) on 2.6.19. So no, you're stuck with ext3 until you are able to upgrade your OS to a more recent version (hopefully kernel 3.x), which I recommend doing on a new machine and then just changing the HDD, unless you're really really short on hardware and love the risk & fun. Cheers, - Juanjo -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Delos Reyes Sent: 10 April 2013 12:09 To: 'Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List' Subject: Re: [plug] EXT3-fs: group descriptors corrupted! Importance: High Hi Juanjo. Many, many thanks!! Your Live USB Stick procedure was the one I followed, checked and I am now accessing the years of data I thought can never be recovered. You saved my ass man! Many, many thanks! After backup I'll try restoring the system itself.. Also to fooler, I think I will also be checking and trying your suggested ext4 filesystem. To all you guys who are ever ready to help out..A HUGE THANKS!! The community needs you!! Humbly, Chris Delos Reyes m 09474932857 NOTE: This e-mail is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential, or otherwise protected from disclosure. Dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail or the information herein by anyone other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify us immediately by return e-mail. Thank you P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. Support a paperless office. Be a LEADER, Be a FRIEND and Be of SERVICE! – MCMXXV. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Juan Jose del Rio Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 1:56 PM To: [email protected]; Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List Subject: Re: [plug] EXT3-fs: group descriptors corrupted! Hi Chris, a) Create a Live USB stick (e.g. http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows ) b) boot from it c) run a filesystem check (e.g. "sudo fsck -A" . For more information: http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2012/08/fsck-command-examples/ ) Regards, - Juanjo ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Delos Reyes [[email protected]] Sent: 03 April 2013 12:27 To: 'Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List' Subject: [plug] EXT3-fs: group descriptors corrupted! Hi there, New to the group but will appreciate it if someone who have experienced this can help me out. A power interruption (last holy week) was inadvertently done earlier than the scheduled time. Sadly my Samba server on CentOS was one of the machines affected by the event. Now I cannot put the server online as every reboot it shows a very disturbing message. My Linux knowledge is very-very small and as I've said maybe someone can give me some lead as to how to put back online or at least retrieve the data on the server. SERVER IS: Xeon Quad Core 6x500GB HDD configured in RAID 6 RAID Card is SCRSATAWR (Intel) BOOTUP HALTS AT MESSAGE: root (hd0, 0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-308.24.1.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x2035bc] initrd /initrd-2.6.18-308.24.1.el5.img [Linux-initrd @ 0x37d53000, 0x29cf34 bytes] Memory for crash kernel (0x0 to 0x0) not within permissible range Redhat Version 5.1.19.6 starting megasas: INIT adapter done EXT3-fs error (device sda5): ext3_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 1792 not in group (block 33188)! EXT3-fs: group descriptors corrupted! mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as ext3: Invalid argument setuproot: moving /dev failed: no such file or directory setuproot: erro mounting /proc: no such file or directory setuproot: erro mounting /sys: no such file or directory switchroot: mount failed:no such file or directory Kernel panic - not synching : attempted to kill init Kernel Alive Kernel direct mapping tables up to 120000000 to 10000 to 16000 GRUB loader can be accessed. Anyone who have experienced this? Appreciate the help. Many thanks. 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