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EXT3 failed disk check at boot, and no solution

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EXT3 failed disk check at boot, and no solution
« on: January 26, 2005, 03:28:36 PM »
Hello,

I have a question. For about 2 years I have been running a SOFTWARE MIRROR on SME SERVER 5.?

It lost some files. (contents from directories was not shown OVER NETWORK SMB)

After a file system check at boot it was marked READ ONLY. Therefore SME SERVER could not boot further than the fchk??. (a repair was run 10 x and result was FAILED)  Nothing further, just more complaints about read only file system ....

I hooked one of the mirrored disks up to my FEDORA CORE 3 desktop, on the second IDE. (instead of cdrom drive)

It was detected by the BIOS and by WINDOWS XP. (i did not write anything to it with windows xp, also not with disk manager)

During boot FEDORA CORE 3 did the same thing as the SME server, just stopping and complain about READ ONLY file system.

By now I have already copied the disk to another disk by using an ext3 driver for Windows XP  (read only driver)

I want to know how to get data back with the disks in the original SME server before I can ever use this kind of setup again...

Anybody any ideas?

Regards,