What's syslog/dmesg say when you try to mount it?  Is the /dev/sdx 
device available?  Fdisk results?  Smartctl --all /dev/sdx results?

What kind of disk is it too, spindle or ssd?  This isn't a lot of info 
to go on, though sounds like a bit of frustration, so think it through 
and give more info than less.  Typing it out to a list sometimes help 
think it through too, otherwise we need the results since not looking 
over your shoulder last night.

Sounds like the disk is toast if the fs is *that* unrecoverable.  Could 
be down to data recovery unless you want to try swapping the firmware 
board and pray the arms/heads didn't die.  SSD's just start getting 
wonky with fs errors it seems when they keel out, or stop reporting into 
the controller bios randomly or at all when done.

-mb



On 01/20/2013 11:37 AM, Mike Bushroe wrote:
> I tried running the fsck from the live boot DVD, and got something that
> took time to examine the partition, but still no repairs. Also ran from
> qparted, with same results.
>
> Booting in recovery mode that last line is actually the /dev/sdb for the
> cd-dvd reader. I can't tell if it dies doing that, or before starting
> the next step.
>
> The behavior is the same no matter which kernel I try to boot to, so it
> is something outside the kernel that is common to all.
>
> Any further suggestions? The name of a better ext4 file system checker?
>
> Mike
>
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