Actually, you would want to try and recover the superblock from the /dev/mapper/.. device.
So, follow the commands for recovery of an ext3 filesystem, but use /dev/mapper/... instead of /dev/sdb2. Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Croonenberg" <[email protected]> To: "Jefferson Ogata" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Friday, June 4, 2010 12:19:37 PM Subject: Re: dell 2850 initrd problem. > Regardless of default install layout, we have a "bad" superblock on > /dev/sda2 and /dev/sda2 marked as an LVM device. The evidence is > strong that / is an LV within the PV that is on /dev/sda2. If you > tried to > recover a superblock directly on /dev/sda2 you would wipe out who > knows what. > > ok, and I'd rather not do that :) Is there something I can check to make sure we indeed have what you suspect I have? > _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge > mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read > the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq > _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
