e2fsck hangs while recovering journal

[evilninja]

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Kevin Shanahan wrote:
> Anyway, I'm kind of stuck. Can anyone give me any clues as to how I can
> get this filesystem mounted for long enough to try and recover some
> data?

as always: try to bypass the fs first and get the data to working disk.
"dd" or even better "dd_rescue" seem to be the tools of choice here.
then, after copying the data to file, you can try "fsck" on this file
and see, what it gives. this way you don't have to deal with hardware
errors while recovering.

Christian.
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