[linux-lvm] Lost filesystems on LVs (forgot the attachment)

Jean-Eric Cuendet Jean-Eric.Cuendet at linkvest.com
Wed May 16 05:48:39 UTC 2001


> > The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
> > filesystem.  If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
> > filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then 
> the superblock
> > is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an 
> alternate superblock:
> >     e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
> >  
> > [root at fatboy filesrv]#
> > 
> > e2fsck -b 8193 doesn't help...
> 
> Try e2fsck -b 32768 -B 4096

Thanks for the tip, but... too late...
I mke2fs the filesystem last evening. The data was not so important, so
recreating it was ~30 minites. 
But I'll be happy if someone could explain that, so it's not coming again!

Thanks for your help
-jec

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