2009-04-15 05:35:08

by Kan-Ru Chen

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Subject: Recover damaged ext4 volume


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2009-04-15 15:02:19

by Eric Sandeen

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Subject: Re: Recover damaged ext4 volume

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