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

[Robert Citek <rwcitek alum calberkeley org>]

On Thursday, Mar 31, 2005, at 03:37 US/Central, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Longming Lee wrote:
> > There are 200GB in this partition. It's a hard work to move out. Can 
> > find
> > alternative solution?
>
> I don't know of a safe way to do this given that you can't get fsck or
> tune2fs to work.

My guess would be that you have a drive that is going bad.  Check your 
logs (/var/log/messages) for disk error messages.  If you find them, 
then you probably would want to test the partitions and recover the 
data with something like testsdisk:

  http://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.html

Good luck, and let us know how things go.

Regards,
- Robert
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