<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I'm not sure I can help here, but this may help.<br><br>It seems the journal has been corrupted.<br><br>According to this thread, <br>http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/disable-journaling-on-ext3-266536/<br><br>It's possible to disable the journal (or at least mount it separately) <br>from the partition itself, and recover the rest.<br><br>Another way might be to mount an ext3 as an ext2 partition.<br><br>The journal keeps a log of last activities, and it's very possible that you've lost<br>the last fs operations; some files may not have been altered properly.<br><br>Failing that, I'd advise going for commercial software such as:<br><br>http://www.datarecoverylinux.com/<br><br><br>//Logan<br>C-x-C-c<br><br><br><br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 22/4/10, Belal Kadayer <i><abdelaziz@intnet.mu></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px
solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Belal Kadayer <abdelaziz@intnet.mu><br>Subject: [lugm.org] kernel panic<br>To: "LUGM Discuss Mailing List" <discuss@lugm.org><br>Date: Thursday, 22 April, 2010, 15:58<br><br><div id="yiv1480362240">
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Am having some problem fixing fs
error</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Am using redhat enterprise edition 4
with lvm</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The message am receiving at boot is
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">JBD: io error reading journal
superblock</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Ext3-fs: error loading
journal</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Mount: error 22 mounting
ext3</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Mount: error 2 mounting
none</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Switch root: mount failed
22</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Umount /initrd/dev failed:
2</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">I already try to fix with e2fsck
with out success</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Am not able to mount the
/dev/hda2 </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Would appreciate if anyone can tell
the proper way to recover my data</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Cheers</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Belal</span></p></font></div></div><br>-----Inline Attachment Follows-----<br><br><div class="plainMail">__________________________________________________________<br>Linux User Group of Mauritius (LUGM) Discuss mailing list<br>Website: <a href="http://lugm.org" target="_blank">http://lugm.org</a><br>Mailing list archive: <a href="http://lugm.org/pipermail/discuss_lugm.org/" target="_blank">http://lugm.org/pipermail/discuss_lugm.org/</a><br>Forum: <a href="http://lugm.org/forum/" target="_blank">http://lugm.org/forum/</a><br>IRC: #linux.mu on Freenode<br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>