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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] filesystem corruption...
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To: Anders Widman <andewid@tnonline.net>
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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

Cheers, Andreas
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