Re: Ack. Help.

[Rus Foster <rghf@fsck.me.uk>]

On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Matthew Bardeen wrote:

> After travelling with my laptop (safely in suspended mode), I turn it on only
> to find the following error when it tries to fsck the drive..
>
> fsck.ext3: Illegal block number while checking ext3 journal for /dev/hda2
>
> an 'ls -al' of the journal file reveals the following information:
> b--sr-S--x 26979 1970433896 1953523829 44, 116 Mar 25 1995 .journal
>

Try booting it in single user read only. Then try a remount of the
filesystem which should replay the journal. See if that helps

Rgds

rus
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