[oclug] drive errors :(

[james terris]

Hello, I seem to be having some trouble with one of the
drives in my RedHat 6.0 machine.

What does this mean:
# mount /home/mnt/sd90
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdd1. or 
too many mounted file systems

This is a 9 gig scsi drive that was working but when I went 
to it earlier tonight and typed ls there seemed to be no files.


when I run fsck on it I get this:

# ./fsck.ext2 /home/mnt/sd90/
e2fsck 1.14, 9-Jan-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
./fsck.ext2: Is a directory while trying to open /home/mnt/sd90

The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else) , then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate
superblock:
    e2fsck -b 8193 <device>


# ./fsck.ext2 /dev/sdd1
e2fsck 1.14, 9-Jan-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
./fsck.ext2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in 
short read while trying to open /dec/sdd1
Could this be a zero-length partition?

Is the drive toast? I'd prefer it wasn't since I've got a pile
of data on it...

ttyl,
james