Recover damaged ext4 volume

Recover damaged ext4 volume

[Kan-Ru Chen]

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Hi,

It was a LVM lv formated to ext4 that can't mount anymore after
resize. Both e2fsck and dumpe2fs can not find valid superblock or backup
superblock.

However, I can still read and recognize some data from the volume using
hd. Is there any chance that I can get my files back?

Following is the output of findsuper, lines with wrong mount time are
stripped:

byte_offset  byte_start     byte_end  fs_blocks blksz  grp  last_mount_time     sb_uuid label
21140751872 21140750848  29059596800    1933312  4096    0  Mon Dec  8 18:27:59 2008 f4890ad8 
21188896256 21188895232  29107741184    1933312  4096    0  Mon Dec  8 18:27:59 2008 f4890ad8 
32368412672 32368411648  96792921088   15728640  4096    0  Thu Dec 11 22:57:22 2008 bd5e4f31 
45592096256 45592095232  45847046656     248976  1024    0  Tue Dec  9 20:16:51 2008 931b7f03 


- Kan

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Re: Recover damaged ext4 volume

[Eric Sandeen]

Kan-Ru Chen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It was a LVM lv formated to ext4 that can't mount anymore after
> resize. Both e2fsck and dumpe2fs can not find valid superblock or backup
> superblock.

Did something overwrite it?  What does file -s /dev/<whatever> or blkid
/dev/<whatever> say, as a first try?

For the record, what kernel were you using?

-Eric

> However, I can still read and recognize some data from the volume using
> hd. Is there any chance that I can get my files back?
> 
> Following is the output of findsuper, lines with wrong mount time are
> stripped:
> 
> byte_offset  byte_start     byte_end  fs_blocks blksz  grp  last_mount_time     sb_uuid label
> 21140751872 21140750848  29059596800    1933312  4096    0  Mon Dec  8 18:27:59 2008 f4890ad8 
> 21188896256 21188895232  29107741184    1933312  4096    0  Mon Dec  8 18:27:59 2008 f4890ad8 
> 32368412672 32368411648  96792921088   15728640  4096    0  Thu Dec 11 22:57:22 2008 bd5e4f31 
> 45592096256 45592095232  45847046656     248976  1024    0  Tue Dec  9 20:16:51 2008 931b7f03 
> 
> 
> - Kan