If you have your original debian net-inst dvd, it's probably time to put the dvd into the drive then reboot the computer into rescue mode. Then run fsck.ext4 -c /dev/sda1 <enter> and watch the fun. This will use badblocks nondestructively and set off a repair operation which should end up with you having all of your data recovered. Figure you have a bad hard drive on its last legs and backup what you can for a later and better install on a new hard drive would be what I would do in your situation. Once the drive is alive again, you may want to install and run smartd-utils on it and check those log files since they'll provide warnings. If you can get smartd-utils to e-mail you so much the better.
On Sat, 9 Nov 2013, darkestkhan wrote: > I created ext3 on sda1 (using mke2fs -j) and it worked for last 20 days. > But after tiday reboot it stopped working - if it would be bad entry in fstab > I would still be able to mount it by hand, but I can't. I have some data > on it that I would rather not lose (I don't have enough space to make backups > of everything). Here is dmesg | tail output: > > " > [ 500.130158] EXT4-fs (sda1): VFS: Can't find ext4 filesystem > " > > Note that I get the same error no matter if use mount -t ext{2,3,4} > > Output of fsck: > > " > fsck from util-linux 2.20.1 > e2fsck 1.42.8 (20-Jun-2013) > ext2fs_open2: Bad magic number in super-block > fsck.ext3: Superblock invalid, trying backup blocks... > fsck.ext3: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda1 > > The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 > filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 > filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock > is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: > e2fsck -b 8193 <device> > " > > Is there some way to recover filesystem (or at least data contained in it)? > > darkestkhan > > -- > > "May the source be with you." > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- jude <jdash...@shellworld.net> Avoid the Gates Of Hell, use Linux! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.bsf.2.01.1311090342530.51...@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg