On Jan 08, 2002 19:02 -0800, IpSo wrote: > Yup! I'm confident everything as far as the reiser filesystem is fine, > just LVM is very confused. > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 507 255496+ 82 Linux swap > /dev/hda2 508 39813 19810224 5 Extended > /dev/hda5 508 4633 2079472+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda6 4634 39813 17730688+ 8e Linux LVM > > > > If you have the HD space, you could try dd if=/dev/hda6 of=/some/file > > > > Then mount -o loop /some/file /mnt/point -t reiserfs. > > > > I don't think this would do any more damage. > > I'll give it a shot I guess, won't this loopback file contain the extra LVM > information and cause problems when trying to mount it though? Does the LVM > information take up the first 2mb or something that I could set the offset as, > so it doesn't carry over to the loopback file? No, it uses a variable amount of space. What you could do is try od -Ad -a /dev/hda6 | grep "R e I s E r 2 F s" and start your dd 65584 bytes before the address at the line this is found on (it should align to an even block boundary). Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
