[mythtv-users] Totally OT - but need help wit RAID5 array

[Robin Hill]

On Mon Nov 20, 2006 at 07:08:55AM -0500, James Pifer wrote:

> > If it's an ext3 drive then you'll have to force fsck to work, otherwise
> > it'll just check whether the drive has a "clean shutdown" flag or not.
> > Try doing:
> >         fsck -f /dev/md0
> > 
> > At least you're getting somewhere now :)
> 
> 
> Is this the final nail in the coffin? After running for a long time,
> fsck ended with:
> 
> Group descriptors look bad... Trying backup blocks...
> Superblock has an invalid ext3 journal (inode 8).
> ...
> *** ext3 journal has been deleted - filesystem is now ext2 only ***
> 
> Corruptoin found in superblock. - (blocks_count = 0).
> 
> 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 32768 <device>
> 
> Should I try to run this last command:
> e2fsck -b 32768 /dev/md0
> 
> ?
> 
Yes - there should be a few redundant superblocks on the disk, so
hopefully they're not all corrupt.  It really is going to depend just
how broken the old disk was :(

Cheers,
        Robin
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