[Linux-cluster] Mount drive with bad superblock?

Wendy Cheng wcheng at redhat.com
Thu May 31 04:27:15 UTC 2007


isplist at logicore.net wrote:

>>Have you fsck'd it using one of the alternate superblocks?
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>Yes, I have. I think I noted all of the steps I've taken to date. I know all 
>of the basic things to recover and none are working which is why I thought I'd 
>ask before messing it up any further.
>
>It's fibre channel aggregated storage space, not the typical single physical 
>drive so it's a little tricky. I know there is still a lot of good data on 
>there which is why I'm trying to be very careful.
>
>Mike
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Not sure which filesystem you are talking about ? Based on the 
"alternate superblocks", I would assume it is ext3 ?  If this is GFS, 
there is an un-published utility called "gfs_edit" that can be used.

-- Wendy




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