From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Marcin M. Jessa" Subject: Re: Recovery of failed RAID 6 and LVM Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:53:32 +0200 Message-ID: <4E8059AC.4060703@yazzy.org> References: <4E7EDE58.3000804@yazzy.org> <20110926074002.6399de56@notabene.brown> <4E7FA3E8.5010603@yazzy.org> <20110926081853.2819622b@notabene.brown> <4E804062.3020700@yazzy.org> <20110926193130.6377f5b9@notabene.brown> Reply-To: lists@yazzy.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110926193130.6377f5b9@notabene.brown> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: NeilBrown Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 9/26/11 11:31 AM, NeilBrown wrote: > On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:05:38 +0200 "Marcin M. Jessa" wrote: > >> On 9/26/11 12:18 AM, NeilBrown wrote: >> >>> Do you remember what filesystem you had on 'storage'? Was it ext3 or ext4 or >>> xfs or something else? >> >> You're giving me some hope here and then silence :) >> Why did you ask about the file system? Should I run fsck on the LV ? >> >> >> > > You already did run fsck on the LV. It basically said that it didn't > recognise the filesystem at all. > I asked in case maybe it was XFS in which case a different tool would be > required. > But you said it was EXT4, so the fsck.ext2 which you used should have worked > if anything would. > > It is certainly odd that the LVM info is all consistent, but the filesystem > info has disappear. It could be that you have the chunksize or device order > wrong and so it is looking for the filesystem info at the wrong place. > > Nothing else I can suggest - sorry. Would it be worth a shot to use parted, create msdos label and then make a partition with a ext file system on top of it and run fsck? -- Marcin M. Jessa