I received an error on bootup about a short read on a filesystem. It then dumped me into the maintenance login.

The output of `fsck /dev/hdf1` is as follows:
fsck.ext3: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/hdf1
Could this be a zero length partition?

As it happens, /dev/hdf1 is a 200GB drive that has all of my files on it, so I am really out of luck if this just went down.

I also checked the partition table with a fdisk -l. I don't want to transcribe the entire output over to this computer but it recognizes the drive as 203 GB, and shows 1 boot partition, starting at sector 1 and ending 24792.

Please help. I will get another drive if this one is failing but I need to get into it one last time to get all of the info off of it.

-Kyle

Ok, little more information - After reading more threads here, I ran e2fsck /dev/hdf. It says that I "Superblock has a bad ext3 journal (inode 8)" Clear <y>?

If I clear this, do I lose all info on the drive????? If not, is this the way to go?