Quoting Holger Grothe <grothe@mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de>: > > IMHO the wrong way. To my experience the mount error message indicates > a "bad filesystem structure", which means you skipped a wrong number of > blocks when using dd. > > > Uhh, what happened to all the data? And theres no lost+found directory > either. > > Due to the "bad filesystem structure" the filesystem is _more_ or less > initialised by the reiserfsck command. reiserfs has no lost+found > directory. > > > > > Possible extended partition at offset(249mb) > > > > Possible partition(Linux LVM physical volume), size(17315mb), > > > offset(2280mb) > > > > type: 142(0x8E)(Linux LVM physical volume) > > > > size: 17315mb #s(35461377) s(4670127-40131503) > ^^^^^^^ > If I'am right this means sectors #4670127 to #40131503 (35461377 sectors) > are used for the volume. Therfore the dd command should skip only the > first 4670126 sectors: > dd if=/dev/hda bs=512 skip=4670126 count=35461377 of=/big/backup_hda6.bin > ^^^^^^^ > Please try. Hrmm, No luck. You figure having to reiserfsck with --rebuild isn't going to help eh? That partition information above is what gpart "guessed", so its likely this is wrong? Is there a more reliable way to get the offsets by chance? Thanks. dd if=/dev/hda bs=512 skip=4670126 count=35461377 of=/big/backup_hda6.bin [root@ipso big]# mount -o loop ./backup_hda6.bin /test -t reiserfs mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0, or too many mounted file systems [root@ipso big]# reiserfsck ./backup_hda6.bin reiserfsck, 2001 - reiserfsprogs 3.x.0j Will read-only check consistency of the partition Will put log info to 'stderr' Do you want to run this program?[N/Yes] (note need to type Yes):Yes reiserfs_open: neither new nor old reiserfs format found on ./backup_hda6.bin reiserfsck: --rebuild-sb may restore reiserfs super block [root@ipso big]# reiserfsck --rebuild-sb ./backup_hda6.bin reiserfsck, 2001 - reiserfsprogs 3.x.0j Will check SB and rebuild if it is needed Will put log info to 'stderr' Do you want to run this program?[N/Yes] (note need to type Yes):Yes reiserfs_open: neither new nor old reiserfs format found on ./backup_hda6.bin what is version of ReiserFS you use[1-4] (1) 3.6.x (2) >=3.5.9 (3) < 3.5.9 converted to new format (4) < 3.5.9 (X) exit 1 Super block of format 3.6 found on the 0x3 in block 16 Block count 4432672 Blocksize 4096 Free blocks 0 Busy blocks (skipped 16, bitmaps - 136, journal blocks - 8193 1 super blocks, 4424326 data blocks Root block 0 Journal block (first) 18 Journal dev 0 Journal orig size 8192 Filesystem state ERROR Tree height 0 Hash function used to sort names: not set Objectid map size 0, max 972 Version 2 Is this ok ? [N/Yes]: Yes Do not forget to run reiserfsck --rebuild-tree [root@ipso big]# mount -o loop ./backup_hda6.bin /test -t reiserfs mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0, or too many mounted file systems > > Holger > -- > Holger Grothe (Email: grothe@mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de) > Fachbereich Mathematik, TU Darmstadt > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html > IpSo -------------------------------------------------------------------- Never worry about viruses in your Email again. Get your FREE! virus scanned Email accounts at http://snappymail.ca