From: sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) Subject: Re: ACK! File system problems: Need help fast Date: 1 May 1993 22:20:49 GMT
In article <AEM.93Apr29144431@tomokato.analog.com>, aem@tomokato.analog.com (Andrew E. Marold (Mr. Adventurous)) writes:
> Help ! I tried to boot my PC under Linux today and got the
> following when it tried to mount the root filesystem:
>> harddisk I/O error
> dev 0342, sector 114711
> Kernel panic: ext2_read_inode: unable to read i-node block
Whoops - that's pretty bad news, it looks as if you have a genuine
hard-disk error in the inode block.
You could try running e2fsck -t on the filesystem (after booting from
a floppy), but I don't think even that can recover from corrupt inode
blocks.
The only good news for you is that e2fs is much more flexible about
where it places inode information on the disk than the other Linux
filesystems, so it should be possible to recreate a valid ext2fs
filesystem on that partition working around the bad blocks.
Cheers,
Stephen Tweedie.