2010/10/9 Fatih Tümen <fthtmn+gentoo@gmail.com>:
> I am not sure what may have caused the issue but there are two things
> I suspect that may have caused this.
> 1. I usually forget the device is mounted and sda1 partition swappedon
> while suspending/sleeping the system. I run fsck.ext3 on the
> complaining dirty partitions.
> 2. I accidentally ran grub-install /dev/sda instead of /dev/hda last
> week and interrupted immediately. There is no sign of a problem in the
> logs for a week. I had install grub on sda couple of years ago  but
> hadnt used it for a long time.
>
> I thought this may be related because interrupting the grub-install
> left in complete mbr. So I ran grub-install on sda again but it could
> not find the disk[3].
>
> I cannot think of anything else to try. I hope you can suggest me a
> way to recover the device or to extract data from it.

The attached file should be better for viewing the logs.

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    Fatih