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From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] filesystem corruption...
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Date: Wed Feb 27 20:13:01 2002
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To: linux-lvm@sistina.com, Anders Widman <andewid@tnonline.net>


On Wednesday, February 27, 2002 04:42:28 PM -0700 Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com> wrote:

> On Feb 27, 2002  23:36 +0100, Anders Widman wrote:
>> Unfortunatley, something went seriously wrong. I can't mount the disk
>> any more, or use reiserfsck. They (mount/reiserfsck) say there isn't
>> a valid filesystem on the device. Vgscan does however find all devices
>> and can activate the volume group, but reiserfsck doesn't work.
>> 
>> What should I do to be able to save a s much data as possible?
> 
> dd if=/dev/vg/lv of=/new/disk conv=sync,noerror

Then we should be able to use debugreiserfs and reiserfsck to 
find a copy of the super in the log, or just recreate it.

-chris