ext3fs crash

[Gordon Messmer]

Rainer Hattenhauer wrote:
> 
> Booting again, the filesystem check gave a message that the ext3fs is
> corrupted. Fixing didn't succeed by the automatic sequence, so I rebooted
> again with <Ctrl>+<d>.
...
> I've allready booted up knoppix live cd and tried to fix the problem with
> ext3fs.fsck, but there are no problems reported, the filesystem seemed to be
> o.k., I was able to mount the partition under knoppix as ext3, it works
> without problems.

Boot into single user mode, make sure that the filesystem is mounted 
read-only (mount / -o remount,ro), and then force an fsck using Fedora's 
fsck (fsck.ext3 -f /dev/<device>).

Afterward, you can use 'tune2fs -l' to see whether or not the device 
still has its journal.