Hi Chris,
Now, however... nothing seems to know that it's a ext3 fs. It shows as
a type 83, and elsewhere it was recommended to set it to type "fd",
for linux raid autodetect. I don't know how to do that. I tried to get
Don't know as this will be salient at all, but for most purposes,
partition type "83" is what you want. AFAIK, I've only ever used the
"Linux raid auto" setting ("fd") when prepping disks for software (mdX)
RAID.
I don't remember the details of your original set of posts, so forgive
the potential repetition, but do you have any sort of backup of the data?
If so, can you just blast through it with fsck?
Here's a "Hail Mary": Does anyone know if this is a definitive test to see
whether or not you've got a valid ext3 filesystem on a given partition?
(In this case, /dev/sda3):
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ dd if=/dev/sda3 bs=512 skip=2 count=1 | perl -e \
'while(<STDIN>){chomp; my($o) = unpack("h*",$_); print "$o\n"}' \
| grep 00ffff35fe100010000
All my ext3-filesystem-bearing devices spit back some output when I run
this...can't remember which part of the "grep" expression would be the
"ext3 identifier" -- maybe "35fe"?
Anyway, FWIW, if that fails, I have a feeling that you have no more ext3
filesystem on that partition. Doesn't mean that recovery is necessarily
impossible, though. Last month's Linux Journal had a fairly nitty-gritty
jag on recovering from data loss, although that may have been
software-RAID-specific. (And part of it was certainly LVM-specific.)
Good luck,
-sth
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