Hi! Thanks a lot for your mail: I managed to recover my files! I don't really know how debugfs works but with the rdump command it could copy all my files to a new partition. Cheers, Cd <div> On 1/29/07, Evgeni <<a href="mailto:evgeni@scientist.com">evgeni@scientist.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> fsck can't help you because bitmaps are damaged, but there is a way to recover your files. 1. Prepair enough space on another partition and create directory where to put recovered files. 2. Boot linux. (for example use Rescue CD or Knoppix Live CD) 3. Run debugfs in catastrophic mode (-c option) : debugfs -c /dev/hdaX catastrophic mode does not read inode and group bitmaps if your superblock is damaged consider using -s (superblock) and -b (block size) options to specify backup superblock (the block size and superblock locations can be found by dumpe2fs) 4. Inside debugfs shell run: rdump directory_to_recover directory_for_recovered_files directory_to_recover is in damaged partition directory_for_recovered_files is in your active partition (from step 1 above) for example: rdump /home /tmp/recovery This will copy /home directory and all it's content including subdirectories and files to /tmp/recovery. -- View this message in context: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/Can%27t-mount--home-anymore-tf2951542.html#a8691524">http://www.nabble.com/Can%27t-mount--home-anymore-tf2951542.html#a8691524 </a> Sent from the Ext3 - User mailing list archive at <a href="http://Nabble.com">Nabble.com</a>. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Ext3-users@redhat.com"> Ext3-users@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users</a> </blockquote></div>