<div dir="ltr">Are you checking the correct device?<div>If fsck.ext3 can't find superblock, the system could not have mounted the device to begin with.</div><div><br></div><div>Please post the results of </div><div>lvm lvs</div>
<div>cat /etc/fstab (if available)</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div>Ez<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/7/26 Daniel Feiglin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dilogsys@inter.net.il">dilogsys@inter.net.il</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hello folks!<br>
<br>
I am trying to assist in the following situation:<br>
<br>
The user has a 1u IBM "Pizza" server. It was configured as one partition<br>
(ext3) and loaded with Centos something-or-other, with the partition set<br>
up as a single LVM volume (yes, including the root directory).<br>
<br>
One fine day, after a reboot, it ran fsck which conked out after<br>
checking about 12% of the disk advising to run fsck manually. At that<br>
point, we logged in as root, and ran fsck -n /dev/whatever to see what's<br>
happening.<br>
<br>
The latter yielded the dreaded corrupt super block, try the next one<br>
(8193). That (as I kind of expected) didn't work either.<br>
<br>
>From being root I can "see" the various directories an even cd to them.<br>
I am aware that it means little if their contents are corrupted.<br>
<br>
Question:<br>
<br>
1. Are there any recovery tools for this kind of situation?<br>
2. Is my only choice, to install another pre-partitioned hard disk, log<br>
in with (say) a "live" CD, mount the corrupt disk and try to manually<br>
copy my data directories?<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
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Daniel<br>
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