I hope someone is able to tell me wheter it is possible to rescue any data from my lvm disk. After adding a second disk, resizing, etc I made the super block sparse. Then problems surfaced. I tried both ef2sck v1.34 and v1.35 but they have the same result: Group descriptors look bad... trying backup blocks... Inode table for group 1519 is not in group. (block 7503623) WARNING: SEVERE DATA LOSS POSSIBLE. Relocate? yes /dev/mapper/lvm_vg0-lv0 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced. Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Relocating group 1519's inode table to 7503623... Restarting e2fsck from the beginning... Group descriptors look bad... trying backup blocks... Inode table for group 1519 is not in group. (block 7503623) WARNING: SEVERE DATA LOSS POSSIBLE. Relocate? yes /dev/mapper/lvm_vg0-lv0 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced. Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes ............... My last attempt was adding a loopback device in the lvm to create more space on the lvm device, but that didn't help. Any ideas on what to do next? Details of the two disks in lvm: --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hde1 VG Name lvm_vg0 PV Size 189.91 GB / not usable 0 Allocatable yes (but full) PE Size (KByte) 4096 Total PE 48618 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 48618 --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hdb1 VG Name lvm_vg0 PV Size 189.91 GB / not usable 0 Allocatable yes (but full) PE Size (KByte) 4096 Total PE 48618 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 48618 _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users