>> On Wednesday, February 27, 2002 04:42:28 PM -0700 Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com> wrote: >>> On Feb 27, 2002 23:36 +0100, Anders Widman wrote: >>>> Unfortunatley, something went seriously wrong. I can't mount the disk >>>> any more, or use reiserfsck. They (mount/reiserfsck) say there isn't >>>> a valid filesystem on the device. Vgscan does however find all devices >>>> and can activate the volume group, but reiserfsck doesn't work. >>>> >>>> What should I do to be able to save a s much data as possible? >>> >>> dd if=/dev/vg/lv of=/new/disk conv=sync,noerror >> Then we should be able to use debugreiserfs and reiserfsck to >> find a copy of the super in the log, or just recreate it. >> -chris > So. How much space would this require on the 'new' disk? The same > amount as the entire LV? If that is, it would be impossible (for me, > economically) to do this. > The disk with bad blocks is 80GB, and I have a "spare" 80GB disk, but > not more. > //Anders Oh, I forgot to ask how I can recover the filsystem header/suprtblock.. What exactly is "dd if=/dev/vg/lv of=/new/disk conv=sync,noerror" doing to the data, except copying it to the new device? //Anders _______________________________________________ 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
