On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 9:20 PM, <shadhin71@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > All, > I need help with following situation > > OS: fedora 22 > Dell > > My root logical volume was full. As a result, I attempted to resize my home partition. > > My physical volume :/dev/sda8 > > > My VG:fedora > > Logical volumes are: > > > /dev/mapper/fedora-root > > /dev/mapper/fedora-root > > Once, I resized volumes, I ran resizee2fs. However, system will not boot properly due to bad geometry. > > To correct the situation, I ran mk2efs. This fix the geometry but, my /home/<user> is gone. I'm gonna guess you meant you ran e2fsck. If you really ran mke2fs, the fs probably not recoverable, if additionally you mounted it, I don't see how it's recoverable (mounting causes inode initialization which will write over large areas of the volume, due to the resize, it will be writing on top of both data and old metadata - the whole thing will be a mess). Anyway, I think this is a case for debugfs, but you're probably best off asking about serious ext4 related problems on the ext4 list. The more you keep making modifications without actually knowing what you're doing, the greater the chance of total data loss. > > > Now, I know data is there and I need to recover it. > > I found a recovery point from 2014 in /etc/ LVM/archive. However, my problem is when I try to recover with > > Pvcreate --uuid xxxx --restorefile file /dev/sda8 Doesn't seem related at all. In your steps you've only done a resize of the fs volume. You hadn't yet resized the LV, and in any case that's not the problem if you can mount home successfully and it's just empty. I -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx