Ext3 emergency recovery

[Christian]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Adam Atlas wrote:
> I have a damaged Ext3 filesystem which fsck has not been able to recover.

maybe the information *how* the fs went corrupt could help. posting a 
fsck log is also nice...

> Up to group 95. Some say "SEVERE DATA LOSS POSSIBLE."

are you using the latest e2fsprogs? latest kernel? i386 or something 
more exotic?

> filesystem and tried answering yes to all of them; it ended up just erasing 
> the whole thing.

is there nothing in lost+found?

-- 
BOFH excuse #325:

Your processor does not develop enough heat.