Hi Heinz! thanks for your reply. On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote: > you've got no LVM prblem but rather a filesystem one unless > direct access to the LV fails > (i.e. "dd if=/dev/system/data of=/dev/null bs=1k count=1024"). zeus:/home/bailong # dd if=/dev/system/data of=/dev/null bs=1k count=1024 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out zeus:/home/bailong # This doesn't sound good :-(. I tried to add a volume with yast2, rebooted the computer and he couldn't mount it anymore. I was panicing and tried to create a new LVM, but didn't create any new FS (is yast2 doing it automatically?) > What do mount and fsck display ? zeus:/home/bailong # mount /dev/system/data /data mount: you must specify the filesystem type zeus:/home/bailong # mount -t ext3 /dev/system/data /data mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/system/data, or too many mounted file systems zeus:/home/bailong # fsck /dev/hda5 fsck 1.26 (3-Feb-2002) e2fsck 1.26 (3-Feb-2002) Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks... fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hda5 The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 <device> fsck.ext2 /dev/hda5 failed (status 0x8). Run manually! zeus:/home/bailong # fsck /dev/hdb5 fsck 1.26 (3-Feb-2002) e2fsck 1.26 (3-Feb-2002) Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks... fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hdb5 The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 <device> fsck.ext2 /dev/hdb5 failed (status 0x8). Run manually! Seems no recovery possible.... Cheers Sven _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/