[H-GEN] degrees of filesystem sickness?

[Allen]

Tell me someone: at what degree of rootedness should an ext2 filesystem
be consigned to the great bitbucket in the sky?

I'd like a second opinion to confirm my impression that "yep it's done
for... you'll have to reinstall".

- At boot time, VFS trying to mount the root filesystem readonly causes
multiple kernel panics,
- mount run from an emergency disk reports "can't find an ext2
filesystem on dev 03:42", 
- e2fsck run with any option reports that the superblock is corrupted,
try another... so I did ("-b 8193", as it suggested) and that block
appeared to be also.

"How did it get that way?" Particularly spectacular kernel-compile
crash. 

The disk is ok, cos it has a dos partition which is quite readable, and
nothing would seem to be wrong with the rest of the machine (except that
it only runs win95 now). Was running RH4.? (2.0.31), it's a P75.

Is there anything else that could be done? It's not an absolute tragedy
if I have to wipe clean and start again, just very distressing.

ta for any suggestions

allen
-- 
PD: pardon of my horror syntax english. you must be patient with me.

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