Ext3 fs: Block bitmap for group 1 not in group (block 0). is fs dead?
- by ip
My company has a server with one big partition with Mysql database and php files. Now this partition seems to be corrupted, as reported from kernel messages when I tried to mount it manually:
[329862.817837] EXT3-fs error (device loop1): ext3_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 1 not in group (block 0)!
[329862.817846] EXT3-fs: group descriptors corrupted!
I've tried to recovery it running tools from a PLD livecd. These are the tools I have tested:
- e2retrieve
- testdisk
- photorec
- dd_rescue/dd_rhelp
- ddrescue
- fsck.ext2
- e2salvage
without any success.
dumpe2fs 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
Filesystem volume name: /dev/sda3
Last mounted on: <not available>
Filesystem UUID: dd51610b-6de0-4392-a6f3-67160dbc0343
Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53
Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic)
Filesystem features: has_journal filetype sparse_super
Default mount options: (none)
Filesystem state: not clean with errors
Errors behavior: Continue
Filesystem OS type: Linux
Inode count: 9502720
Block count: 18987570
Reserved block count: 949378
Free blocks: 11555345
Free inodes: 11858398
First block: 0
Block size: 4096
Fragment size: 4096
Blocks per group: 32768
Fragments per group: 32768
Inodes per group: 16384
Inode blocks per group: 512
Last mount time: Wed Mar 24 09:31:03 2010
Last write time: Mon Apr 12 11:46:32 2010
Mount count: 10
Maximum mount count: 30
Last checked: Thu Jan 1 01:00:00 1970
Check interval: 0 (<none>)
Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root)
Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root)
First inode: 11
Inode size: 128
Journal inode: 8
Journal backup: inode blocks
dumpe2fs: A block group is missing an inode table while reading journal inode
e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
fsck.ext3: Group descriptors look bad... trying backup blocks...
fsck.ext3: A block group is missing an inode table while checking ext3 journal for /dev/sda3
I tried also backup superblocks, same error result.
There's any other tools I have to test before considering these disk definitely unrecoverable?
Many thanks,
ip