From: Eric Sandeen Subject: Re: Fwd: Need help with Data Recovery on Ext4 partitions that became corrupted on running OS Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 19:59:50 -0500 Message-ID: <52438706.3090706@redhat.com> References: <20130925161259.GA5404@quack.suse.cz> <20130925212834.GA10542@quack.suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jan Kara , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: InvTraySts Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:13538 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752591Ab3IZA7y (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Sep 2013 20:59:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 9/25/13 7:08 PM, InvTraySts wrote: > (Going to merge these two back, because both of you are actually > helping me, but with the two conversations being segregated like this > it makes it hard to correlate with you both) > The partprobe did work with getting the partition table reread. > After that, the tune2fs sorta worked. > root@server:~# tune2fs -f -O ^has_journal /dev/sdf1 > tune2fs 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012) > root@server:~# mount /dev/sdf1 /media/tmp > root@server:~# ls -l /media/tmp/ > total 0 > > When I try and use the debugfs /dev/sdf1 > > root@server:~# debugfs /dev/sdf1 > debugfs 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012) > debugfs: ls > EXT2 directory corrupted > debugfs: ls / > /: EXT2 directory corrupted At this point you could try e2fsck on the _copy_, to see what it can do. Seems like something quite bad may have happened to your storage, though, and e2fsck may not be magical for you. -Eric