corrupted FS!

[Christian Kujau]

On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Marco Polo wrote:
> of its directories gives "Input/Output error". The ls ?la on the FS shows
> "?" for every field with no permission information. The /var/log/messages is
> flooded with:
>
> Feb  1 10:12:21 *HOSTNAME* kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1):
> ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode block - inode=178356225, block=356712450

hm, are there device related messages in the syslog? "unable to read 
inode block" sounds like general i/o errors to me.

> e2fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)

can you try a more current version? e2fsprogs.sf.net is at v1.39

> It seems like the partition table is corrupted and not the superblock, and
> if so, what would be the right way of going about it?!

sorry to repeat myself, but at first I'd make sure that there are no 
device errors. if this can be ruled out: do you have spare 250GB to 
backup you (corrupt) fs? if yes - please do, then use the current fsck 
to try to repair the fs.

C.
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