Any recommendations for tools to diagnose and recover problems on an ext4 file system? In particular: root@jessie01:~# mount -o ro /dev/markov02/root /mnt/markov02 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/mapper/markov02-root, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so. and e2fsck says root@jessie01:~# e2fsck /dev/markov02/root e2fsck 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014) /dev/markov02/root: recovering journal Superblock needs_recovery flag is clear, but journal has data. markov02/root is an LVM volume, built on partitions from 2 disks in a virtual machine. The initial symptom was that the VM the disks were in originally would only get as far as busybox when it started. However, I think the filesystem was OK even after that, since it was visible in busybox and in another VM. I think virt-manager might have overwritten on of the disks because I left "allocate entire disk now" checked when I moved one of the disks between machines. I'm making copies of the virtual disks now. Ross Boylan _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users