Re: Can't rebuild journal of EXT-3 partition

[Paul Howarth <paul city-fan org>]

Longming Lee wrote:
> Dear friends,
> 
> There is a EXT-3 partion in the FC2 hard disk, and it needs to
> fsck for something wrong. I do the fsck while booting. But
> 6 hours passes and it can't be done. I stop fsck and then I
> mount it to be EXT-2 OK.
> 
> I unmount this broken partition, and try to rebuild the journal of EXT-3,
> but it is failure.
> 
> [root nfs2 root]# tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/sdb1
> tune2fs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
> Illegal block number passed to ext2fs_unmark_block_bitmap #1632133966
> for block bitmap for /dev/sdb1
> Segmentation fault
> 
> How should I do to fix or rebuild the journal of this EXT-3 broken
> partition?

Is it possible for you to move the files off the partition in ext2 mode,
then reformat it as a new ext3 partition and move the files back?

Paul.