[H-GEN] VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev ide1(22,1)

[Ted Percival]

It's probably not hosed.

To begin with, ext2 and ext3 have the same on-disk storage format,
so the e2* tools will work fine.

Have a go at running `fsck -rt ext2 /dev/hdc1`. (Maybe without -r
to begin with). e2fs is pretty recoverable. If you search around you
should be able to find some good guides.

-Ted Percival

On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 01:21:54PM +1000, Geoff Shang wrote:
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> Hi everyone,
> 
> I was using one of our computers the other night when I started getting a 
> bunch of errors, the text of which I can't remember but I do recall hearing 
> timeouts. Anyway, I thought I'd reboot but it wasn't reading the root 
> filesystem so I couldn't run a reboot or shutdown.  So I just hit reset.
> 
> It then panicked as it couldn't mount the root filesystem because it was 
> reporting a bogus size of 0 bytes, even though the kernel loaded off that 
> same partition.
> 
> I pulled the drive out of that box and stuck it in this one.  The drive 
> checks out OK on boot-up and looks OK in fdisk:
> 
> Disk /dev/hdc: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 1023 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hdc1   *         1       484    975712+  83  Linux
> /dev/hdc2           485       546    124992   82  Linux swap
> /dev/hdc3           547      1023    961632   83  Linux
> 
> But when I try to mount a partition, I get the following error:
> 
> VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev ide1(22,1).
> FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
> VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 16:01.
> FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
> VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 16:01.
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> 
> It's either EXT3 or EXT2, can't remember which, but if I specify either in 
> the mount command, I get the equivalent of the first line of the above.
> 
> So is my drive hosed?  Or is there something I'm overlooking?
> 
> Geoff.
> 
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