I am using LVM2 on kernel 2.6.7 from Debian Sid. When shrinking a
logical volume containing a Reiser filesystem from 48G to 40G using
# lvresize -L 40G /dev/vg00/pub2
stupid me forgot to shrink the filesystem first using:
# resize_reiserfs -s 40G /dev/vg00/pub2
Immediately after the lvresize command I recognised my mistake and
tried to restore the LVM metadata from the backup as follows:
# vgcfgrestore -v --file /etc/lvm/archive/vg00_00043.vg vg00
Restored volume group vg00
# vgchange -a y vg00
4 logical volume(s) in volume group "vg00" now active
which seemed to be succesful and the LVM structure looks recovered
when comparing the LVM files before lvresize and after vgcfgrestore,
but when checking the filesystem it is apparently corrupted now:
# reiserfsck /dev/vg00/pub2
Will read-only check consistency of the filesystem on /dev/vg00/pub2
Will put log info to 'stdout'
Do you want to run this program?[N/Yes] (note need to type Yes if you do):Yes
bread: Cannot read the block (12582911): (Invalid argument).
reiserfs_open: Your partition is not big enough to contain the
filesystem of (12582911) blocks as was specified in the found super block.
Failed to open the filesystem.
Mounting the filesystem read-only also fails of course:
# mount -o ro /pub
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/vg00/pub2,
or too many mounted file systems
Fortunately that logical volume only contained mirrors from public
file servers while the rest of the system is still intact. However,
I would like to recover the data to avoid transferring ~40GB again.
Any recommendation to recover the logical volume would be appreciated.
Achim
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