From: InvTraySts Subject: Fwd: Need help with Data Recovery on Ext4 partitions that became corrupted on running OS Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 22:25:49 -0400 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org So long story short, I had a server running that had a processor fail while powered on, causing the file systems to become corrupt. I replaced the motherboard, processor and power supply just to be on the safe side. However, I am at a bit of a loss as to what to do now. I was working sandeen in the OFTC IRC channel, but, on his recommendation he suggested me to post something to the mailing list. Lets start off with one drive at a time (I have 4 that are corrupt). The specific logical drive in question was in RAID1 on a Dell PERC 5/i card. If I try to mount this using: mount -t ext4 /dev/sda1 /media/tmp It complains in dmesg with the following output: 685621.845207] EXT4-fs error (device sda1): ext4_iget:3888: inode #8: comm mount: bad extra_isize (18013 != 256) [685621.845213] EXT4-fs (sda1): no journal found However, if I run dumpe2fs -f /dev/sda1 I get the following output: root@server:~# dumpe2fs -f /dev/sda1 dumpe2fs 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012) Filesystem volume name: root Last mounted on: /media/ubuntu/root Filesystem UUID: f959e195-[removed] Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype extent flex_bg sparse_super large_file huge_file uninit_bg dir_nlink extra_isize Filesystem flags: signed_directory_hash Default mount options: user_xattr acl Filesystem state: not clean with errors Errors behavior: Continue Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 4849664 Block count: 19398144 Reserved block count: 969907 Free blocks: 17034219 Free inodes: 4592929 First block: 0 Block size: 4096 Fragment size: 4096 Reserved GDT blocks: 1019 Blocks per group: 32768 Fragments per group: 32768 Inodes per group: 8192 Inode blocks per group: 512 Flex block group size: 16 Filesystem created: Sat May 25 14:59:50 2013 Last mount time: Sat Aug 24 11:04:25 2013 Last write time: Tue Sep 24 13:55:36 2013 Mount count: 0 Maximum mount count: -1 Last checked: Sat Aug 24 16:56:09 2013 Check interval: 0 () Lifetime writes: 107 GB Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root) Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root) First inode: 11 Inode size: 256 Required extra isize: 28 Desired extra isize: 28 Journal inode: 8 Default directory hash: half_md4 Directory Hash Seed: 01a8f605-b2bc-41ee-b7b5-11d843ab622f Journal backup: inode blocks FS Error count: 8 First error time: Sat Aug 24 13:44:55 2013 First error function: ext4_iget First error line #: 3889 First error inode #: 8 First error block #: 0 Last error time: Tue Sep 24 13:55:36 2013 Last error function: ext4_iget Last error line #: 3888 Last error inode #: 8 Last error block #: 0 dumpe2fs: Corrupt extent header while reading journal super block So I attempted to clone the drive to a 2TB backup drive that is empty, and currently I am having more problems with the cloned drive than I am with the original. sandeen said something about using tune2fs to tell it to remove the has_journal flag, but I might need some assistance with that. I would appreciate any help that you could give me, as I know my chances of recovering data are slim, but I would definitely like to try and recover as much data as I can. Thanks Andrew