Hello folks! I am trying to assist in the following situation:
The user has a 1u IBM "Pizza" server. It was configured as one partition (ext3) and loaded with Centos something-or-other, with the partition set up as a single LVM volume (yes, including the root directory). One fine day, after a reboot, it ran fsck which conked out after checking about 12% of the disk advising to run fsck manually. At that point, we logged in as root, and ran fsck -n /dev/whatever to see what's happening. The latter yielded the dreaded corrupt super block, try the next one (8193). That (as I kind of expected) didn't work either. >From being root I can "see" the various directories an even cd to them. I am aware that it means little if their contents are corrupted. Question: 1. Are there any recovery tools for this kind of situation? 2. Is my only choice, to install another pre-partitioned hard disk, log in with (say) a "live" CD, mount the corrupt disk and try to manually copy my data directories? Regards, Daniel
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