As I have said - if he could mount it, he can read the superblock. Ez
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:50 AM, Amos Shapira <[email protected]>wrote: > 2010/7/27 Etzion Bar-Noy <[email protected]> > > > > 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 > > Here is a method using testdisk to find the backup superblocks: > http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Advanced_Find_ext2_ext3_Backup_SuperBlock > > (never tried this). > > --Amos > > > > > 2010/7/26 Daniel Feiglin <[email protected]> > >> > >> 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 > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Linux-il mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-il mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > >
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