Re: [tlug] EXT3 journal not found

[Matt Doughty <mdoughty@example.com>]

I can think of one way that might work:
  1. mount the file system as ext2
  2. chattr -i /.journal
  3. rm /.journal
  4. use tune2fs to recreate the journal.

I have no idea is this will actually work, but it makes sense to me.
Anyone with a better understanding or actual experience here feel
free to put me in my place.

--Matt
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 10:36:05AM +0900, Jonathan Q wrote:
> On my testbed/system under construction, I found it gone stiff this morning,
> with the screensaver locked.  Not pingable from any other machine on
> my network
> 
> During the reboot, it got as far as mounting the filesystems, and came back with
> "EXT3 journal not found device ide0 (3,2)" and panicked.
> 
> Hardware problem, ugly fallout from whatever made it go stiff, or software
> problem?  
> 
> Does anybody know a fix for this (recreate a journal based on the current
> info, or somethign), or am I doomed?  An install is no big deal, it's currently
> just my test machine, but if I can save the time and learn something about
> journal recovery, I will.
> 
> The OS is Red Hat 7.3 beta 2, an unknown factor, but on the other
> hand, the disk is also new (40 GB IBM), so it's an unknown as well.
> 
> I'm currently booting from a floppy because the BIOS seems to not like booting
> from disks that large (/boot is completely within the first 8 GB, but
> I never even get a boot prompt out of it), and need to try flashing the BIOS
> to a newer rev (the board's only 15 months old or so, you'd think it wouldn't
> be bothered, but...).
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Jonathan

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