Hi! I'm new to the list. I have a problem with mounting my home directory since my PC crashed. I hope that I can get some help on this list as I don't know much of ext3 myself. The mount command for my /home gives me the following output: # mount /dev/sda6 /mnt/tmp/ mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda6, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so The partition /dev/sda6 is an ext3 file system. It also tried to specify the file system type with -text3 and to use a backup superblock with the sb option but it does not help. I tried to run fsck but it does not fix the problem either. Here is the output of fsck: # fsck.ext3 /dev/sda6 e2fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006) Group descriptors look bad... trying backup blocks... Inode bitmap for group 522 is not in group. (block 3271884801) Relocate<y>? yes fsck.ext3: e2fsck_read_bitmaps: illegal bitmap block(s) for /home I searched the Internet and I found a small Windows application that could see my /home partition and files. So I can't beleive there is nothing under Linux to recover my files. I'll appreciate any help on this topic because I tried anything I could think of by myself and I still can't mount my home. Any suggestions? Best wishes! Cd