unable to recover ext3 - please help

From: Maciej Mrozowski (reavertm_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/15/04 

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 12:57:33 +0200

hi
yesterday my gentoo has freezed (propably due to hard disk cable
corruption).
It booted properly, but after that, some files begin to vapour. I rebooted
system immediately (reset switch) and changed the ide cable. Next time my
linux hasn't started reporting typical kernel error message - unable to
mount root. I used rescue cd and started to recover filesystems. For root
partition it was only necessary to find a superblock to make fsck recover
important files. Unfortunataly i didn't managed to recover second ext3
partition. fsck.ext3 has failed with message:
"ext3 recovery flag clear, but journal has data. Recovery flag not set in
backup superblock, so running journal anyway.
fsck.ext3: unable to set superblock flags on /usr/local"
i have absolutely no idea what to do now. unfortunately this partition
contains data very important for me (for example, location of meeting of my
project group for tomorrow) and I just don't want to think what's going to
happen with me if i loose all of this.I would like to repair that filesystem
(even with corrupted directory structure with all of them moved to
lost+found, like it was after running fsck on my first partition) rather
than recover number of files using some recovery tools, because i just don't
have so much disk space.

thanks in advance for Your respond
Maciek Mrozowski

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