You might try mounting the filesystem briefly as an ext2. Then, perhaps
you could (under rh7.3) tune2fs -j the thing to get it back to a
7.3-vintage ext3. Just a wild guess; no idea whether this has much chance
of helping (or much chance of not hurting!).
-Jan
On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Paul Casteels wrote:
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:59:48 -0500
From: Paul Casteels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: Paul Casteels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ext3 filesystem
One of our machines has to remain at RedHat 7.3 and crashed it's disk.
With one of SL LiveCD's I was able to restore everything.
During boot I received a message like
fsck.ext3: Filesystem has unsupported features
e2fsck: Get a newer version of e2fsck
and fails to mount.
It has e2fsprogs-1.27-3 but since it cannot boot I cannot upgrade.
With debugfs I checked and removed some features but I could not get it g
oing.
It appears that something changed in ext3 that makes it not backwards
compatible. Maybe an SL3 LiveCD could help but that seems not available.
