Re: lvm2 and e2fsck

2009-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/24/2009 06:15 PM, Matthew Moore wrote: On Tuesday 24 February 2009 02:44:14 pm Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] No, I definitely have /sbin/fsck.ext4. But running it doesn't fix the group descriptor error? This person is having the same problem and looks to have resorted to dumping the fs and

Re: lvm2 and e2fsck

2009-02-24 Thread Matthew Moore
On Tuesday 24 February 2009 02:44:14 pm Ron Johnson wrote: > This looks reasonable. > # lvdisplay > Logging initialised at Tue Feb 24 15:42:45 2009 > Set umask to 0077 > lvdisplayFinding all logical volumes > lvdisplay --- Logical volume --- > lvdisplay LV Name/dev/m

Re: lvm2 and e2fsck

2009-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/24/2009 03:34 PM, Matthew Moore wrote: On Tuesday 24 February 2009 11:49:26 am Ron Johnson wrote: Though, are there any commands which would indicate whether my LV or VGs are screwed up? (Fixing them might allow me to get my data back.) Do you think that your volume descriptors got hose

Re: lvm2 and e2fsck

2009-02-24 Thread Matthew Moore
On Tuesday 24 February 2009 11:49:26 am Ron Johnson wrote: > Though, are there any commands which would indicate whether my LV or > VGs are screwed up? (Fixing them might allow me to get my data back.) Do you think that your volume descriptors got hosed? The main LVM diagnostic commands are: pv

Re: lvm2 and e2fsck

2009-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/24/2009 06:21 AM, Mark Allums wrote: Mark Allums wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/23/2009 01:52 AM, Mark Allums wrote: [snip] 0. I have lvm2 running on top of Linux md RAID, and don't actually have any ext4 file sytem partitions to check, so that particular fsck command was destined t

Re: lvm2 and e2fsck

2009-02-24 Thread Mark Allums
Mark Allums wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/23/2009 01:52 AM, Mark Allums wrote: [snip] 0. I have lvm2 running on top of Linux md RAID, and don't actually have any ext4 file sytem partitions to check, so that particular fsck command was destined to fail. But it shows it's there, when it's

Re: lvm2 and e2fsck

2009-02-23 Thread Mark Allums
Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/23/2009 01:52 AM, Mark Allums wrote: [snip] 0. I have lvm2 running on top of Linux md RAID, and don't actually have any ext4 file sytem partitions to check, so that particular fsck command was destined to fail. But it shows it's there, when it's needed Except this

Re: lvm2 and e2fsck

2009-02-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/23/2009 01:52 AM, Mark Allums wrote: [snip] 0. I have lvm2 running on top of Linux md RAID, and don't actually have any ext4 file sytem partitions to check, so that particular fsck command was destined to fail. But it shows it's there, when it's needed. Except this was a virgin fs, w

Re: lvm2 and e2fsck

2009-02-22 Thread Mark Allums
Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/22/2009 08:38 PM, Mark Allums wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Hi, # mount -v -t ext4 /dev/main_huge_vg/main_huge_lv /data/big $ dmesg | tail -n2 EXT4-fs: ext4_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 0 not in group (block 3120627712)! EXT4-fs: group descriptors corrupted

Re: lvm2 and e2fsck

2009-02-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/22/2009 08:38 PM, Mark Allums wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Hi, # mount -v -t ext4 /dev/main_huge_vg/main_huge_lv /data/big $ dmesg | tail -n2 EXT4-fs: ext4_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 0 not in group (block 3120627712)! EXT4-fs: group descriptors corrupted! Can I just do th

Re: lvm2 and e2fsck

2009-02-22 Thread Mark Allums
Ron Johnson wrote: Hi, # mount -v -t ext4 /dev/main_huge_vg/main_huge_lv /data/big $ dmesg | tail -n2 EXT4-fs: ext4_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 0 not in group (block 3120627712)! EXT4-fs: group descriptors corrupted! Can I just do this? # e2fsck /dev/main_huge_vg/main_huge_lv