[NTLUG:Discuss] missing ext3 filesystem

[Chris Cox]

Lance Simmons wrote:
> * Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> [060221 22:59]:
>>Run badblocks on the device to see if there are badblocks.
>>I still believe there is a major bug in ext2 that has yet
>>to be uncovered.  I've seen too many ext3's do really
>>weird things (for me, at least fsck cleared things up).
> 
> Badblocks didn't turn up anything.  Any suggestions for what to do next?

Not a clue.  Sounds like something physically wrote across
the drive... you know like:

cat >/dev/hda </dev/urandom

or something like that.  Sounds unrecoverable.

I'd do a ddrescue (if that even works on it)... you might
be able to get something (I'm not optimistic though).