File System ???

[Hugh Crissman]

* Mike Bird <mgb-ubuntu at yosemite.net> [2005-07-11 18:24:31]:

> It is really hard to lose an ext3 file system to corruption, even
> with multiple power losses.  What are you doing and what error are
> you getting that says its corrupt?  Do you get the same problem if
> you shutdown tidily and then power up again?
> 
> --Mike Bird
> 

Ok, maybe corruption is not the best descriptor. What happened was, after the power outage, I was no longer able to mount this second hard drive. It 
says unrecognized file system. I run e2fsck -P and it finds tons of errors but still not able to mount. The next error wants me to "e2fsck -b 8143" 
and that does not work either. At this point recovery is out. I had a little over 20Gb of data on this drive now I have 81Mb. The funny thing is, I 
want to use this second hard drive as a spot to backup data from other systems. Corruption or not, I am not sure. This is the second time this has 
happened so, I thinking it must be related to ext3, large files, or something.

Thanks,

hcrissman