Re: e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block

[kalinix <calin kalinix cosma gmail com>]

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 00:46 -0500, M. Lewis wrote:
> Tarhon-Onu Victor wrote:
> > On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, M. Lewis wrote:
> > 
> >> Have I missed something? Is there any hope at all for my data?
> > 
> >     Try to run:
> > fdisk -l /dev/hdc
> >     ...to list the parittion on that hard drive. Maybe you have created 
> > a partition there and your data resides on that partition, and you would 
> > have to mount /dev/hdc1 or /dev/hdc2 instead...
> > 
> 
> Yes, you were indeed correct. There is a partition, and I have 
> subsequently tried all the superblocks on that partition (hdc2):
> 
> [root moe ~]# fdisk -l /dev/hdc
> 
> Disk /dev/hdc: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hdc1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
> /dev/hdc2              14        9729    78043770   8e  Linux LVM
> 
> 
> Still no luck though.
> 
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Linux LVM will never mount as an ordinary ext3 partition.


This might help:

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-64964.html





Calin

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