[ILUG-BOM] fsck - Superblock has a bad ext3 journal (inode 8)

Hi

I've got a kernel panic ... When I boot using a rescue CD and try fsck /dev/hda3 it says:

Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks... Superblock has a bad ext3 journal (inode 8) Clear?

I have tried fsck -b option too ... no joy.. same error. All other partitions, 9 in all are fine... Only /dev/hda3 which is the / partition is reporting this error. Any way for me to recover this partition?

What will happen if I type 'y' when prompted with 'Clear?' .. Will that loose any chance I have left in trying to recover the data from this partition?

I suspect the / partition got full ... which may have caused this error to begin with... More than recovery of data, I'm interested in finding out if that was the case or not.

Rishi