Server Disk Problem

[Etzion Bar-Noy]

Are you checking the correct device?
If fsck.ext3 can't find superblock, the system could not have mounted the
device to begin with.

Please post the results of
lvm lvs
cat /etc/fstab (if available)

Thanks
Ez

2010/7/26 Daniel Feiglin <dilogsys at inter.net.il>

> Hello folks!
>
> I am trying to assist in the following situation:
>
> The user has a 1u IBM "Pizza" server. It was configured as one partition
> (ext3) and loaded with Centos something-or-other, with the partition set
> up as a single LVM volume (yes, including the root directory).
>
> One fine day, after a reboot, it ran fsck which conked out after
> checking about 12% of the disk advising to run fsck manually. At that
> point, we logged in as root, and ran fsck -n /dev/whatever to see what's
> happening.
>
> The latter yielded the dreaded corrupt super block, try the next one
> (8193). That (as I kind of expected) didn't work either.
>
> >From being root I can "see" the various directories an even cd to them.
> I am aware  that it means little if their contents are corrupted.
>
> Question:
>
> 1. Are there any recovery tools for this kind of situation?
> 2. Is my only choice, to install another pre-partitioned hard disk, log
> in with (say) a "live" CD, mount the corrupt disk and try to manually
> copy my data directories?
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Daniel
>
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