fsck - superblock has a bad ext3 journal (inode 8)

From: Rishi Gangoly (rishigangoly_at_gmail.com)
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: 30 Dec 2004 10:10:24 -0800

Hi

I've got a kernel panic ... When I boot using a rescue CD and try fsck
/dev/hda3 it says:

Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks...
Superblock has a bad ext3 journal (inode 8)
Clear?

I have tried fsck -b option too ... no joy.. same error. All other
partitions, 9 in all are fine... Only /dev/hda3 which is the /
partition is reporting this error. Any way for me to recover this
partition?

What will happen if I type 'y' when prompted with 'Clear?' .. Will
that loose any chance I have left in trying to recover the data from
this partition?

I suspect someone with root access accidently filled up the disk space
on this partition... which may have caused this error to begin with...
More than recovery of data, I'm interested in finding out if that was
the case or not.

Rishi

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