On 10/10/07, Andy Green <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > > > EXT3-fs error (device sdc2): ext3_check_descriptors: Inode table for > > group 291 not in group (block 1082228738)! > > EXT3-fs: group descriptors corrupted! > > > > Yesterday, I could mount it with no problem. > > Sounds like something bad has happened to the filesystem... that block > number is rather large too... has this filesystem been copied around > between partitions in its history? Or resized? > > I would make sure it is umounted and then > > # fsck -f /dev/sdc2 > > and see what happens. Thanks, Andy and Karl. I did not do anything with /dev/sdc2. I suspect that the problem may have been caused by the hibernation of my computer that I did today. Meanwhile, I ran fsck, and now I can mount the disk. Can I be sure that the integrity of the data in /dev/sdc2 has not been affected? Paul