Re: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-22 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 6:33 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: > PERC 700 controller that has a virtual drive configured as a RAID 5 with 15 > disks in it. We're running CentOS 5.10 at the moment, and I created a 15Tb > ext3 filesystem on that RAID group (set this up a few years back) that has > been

RE: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-22 Thread Weiner, Michael
From: Gordon Messmer [mailto:gordon.mess...@gmail.com] On 04/22/2016 05:44 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: > However I cannot use any of the superblocks it seems: It was always unlikely that whatever damaged the first block did not damage the rest of the array. At this point, I think you have suffi

Re: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 04/22/2016 05:44 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: However I cannot use any of the superblocks it seems: It was always unlikely that whatever damaged the first block did not damage the rest of the array. At this point, I think you have sufficient evidence that restoring from backups is the way f

RE: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-22 Thread Weiner, Michael
From: Weiner, Michael [mailto:wein...@ccf.org] From: Gordon Messmer [mailto:gordon.mess...@gmail.com] On 04/21/2016 10:08 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: >> mkfs.ext3 -F -b 4096 -n /dev/sdb1 >> >Note that I don't have a CentOS 5 system around for testing, and I don't >> >know what mixing -F and -n

RE: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-22 Thread Weiner, Michael
From: Gordon Messmer [mailto:gordon.mess...@gmail.com] On 04/21/2016 10:08 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: >> mkfs.ext3 -F -b 4096 -n /dev/sdb1 >> >Note that I don't have a CentOS 5 system around for testing, and I don't >> >know what mixing -F and -n does. > Yeah I was a little nervous about that, a

Re: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 2:25 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 04/21/2016 10:08 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: >>> >>> mkfs.ext3 -F -b 4096 -n /dev/sdb1 >>> >Note that I don't have a CentOS 5 system around for testing, and I don't >>> > know what mixing -F and -n does. >> >> Yeah I was a little nervous a

Re: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 04/21/2016 10:08 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: mkfs.ext3 -F -b 4096 -n /dev/sdb1 >Note that I don't have a CentOS 5 system around for testing, and I don't know what mixing -F and -n does. Yeah I was a little nervous about that, and as such, I didn’t try it:) because the flags are also counte

Re: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-21 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 04/21/2016 09:44 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: On 04/20/2016 11:38 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: [root@raos_apps01 ~]# cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 8 0 976224256 sda 8 1 104391 sda1 8 2 976117432 sda2 816 14643363840 sdb 81

RE: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-21 Thread Weiner, Michael
From: Samuel Sieb [mailto:sam...@sieb.net] On 04/21/2016 09:44 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: > From: Samuel Sieb [mailto:sam...@sieb.net] > > On 04/21/2016 05:46 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: >> From: Samuel Sieb [mailto:sam...@sieb.net] >> >> [root@raos_apps01 ~]# file -s /dev/sdb1 >> /dev/sdb1: data

Re: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-21 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 04/21/2016 09:44 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: From: Samuel Sieb [mailto:sam...@sieb.net] On 04/21/2016 05:46 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: From: Samuel Sieb [mailto:sam...@sieb.net] [root@raos_apps01 ~]# file -s /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1: data [root@raos_apps01 ~]# file -s /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdc1: SGI XFS

RE: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-21 Thread Weiner, Michael
From: Gordon Messmer [mailto:gordon.mess...@gmail.com] > On 04/21/2016 05:46 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: >> Bad:( >> >> [root@raos_apps01 ~]# file -s /dev/sdb1 >> /dev/sdb1: data > > https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1532 thank you for this link > As Chris Murphy noted, ext3 filesystems larger

Re: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 04/21/2016 05:46 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: Bad:( [root@raos_apps01 ~]# file -s /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1: data https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1532 As Chris Murphy noted, ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB were not supported in the initial release of CentOS 5.0, and may have required the -F

RE: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-21 Thread Weiner, Michael
From: Samuel Sieb [mailto:sam...@sieb.net] On 04/21/2016 05:46 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: > From: Samuel Sieb [mailto:sam...@sieb.net] > > On 04/20/2016 11:38 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: >> [root@raos_apps01 ~]# cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name >> >> 8 0 976224256 sda >>

Re: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-21 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 04/21/2016 05:46 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: From: Samuel Sieb [mailto:sam...@sieb.net] On 04/20/2016 11:38 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: [root@raos_apps01 ~]# cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 8 0 976224256 sda 8 1 104391 sda1 8 2 976117432 sda2

RE: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-21 Thread Weiner, Michael
From: ch...@colorremedies.com [mailto:ch...@colorremedies.com] On Behalf Of Chris Murphy On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Weiner, Michael wrote: > > > [root@raos_apps01 ~]# mke2fs -n /dev/sdb1 mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006) > mke2fs: Filesystem too large. No more than 2**31-1 blocks > (8TB

RE: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-21 Thread Weiner, Michael
From: Samuel Sieb [mailto:sam...@sieb.net] On 04/20/2016 11:38 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: > [root@raos_apps01 ~]# cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name > > 8 0 976224256 sda > 8 1 104391 sda1 > 8 2 976117432 sda2 > 816 14643363840 sdb > 817

Re: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 04/20/2016 02:04 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: Related. -j isn't the same as mkfs.ext3 I guess, at least not with such old progs. tl;dr, best to use mkfs.ext3, mkfs.ext4, etc https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=594777 Interesting. I've usually just used mke2fs -j. From the man page: -j

Re: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 2:25 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Chris Murphy >> wrote: >>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Weiner, Michael wrote: >> But then the eftools complain and don’t work properly,

Re: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Weiner, Michael wrote: > >>> >>> But then the eftools complain and don’t work properly, example >>> >>> [root@raos_apps01 ~]# mke2fs -n /dev/sdb1 >>> mk

Re: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Weiner, Michael wrote: >> >> But then the eftools complain and don’t work properly, example >> >> [root@raos_apps01 ~]# mke2fs -n /dev/sdb1 >> mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006) > > There's the problem. Why are you us

Re: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Weiner, Michael wrote: > From: ch...@colorremedies.com [mailto:ch...@colorremedies.com] On Behalf Of > Chris Murphy > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Weiner, Michael wrote: >> From: ch...@colorremedies.com [mailto:ch...@colorremedies.com] On >> Behalf Of Chri

Re: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-20 Thread Weiner, Michael
> On Apr 20, 2016, at 3:25 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > >> On 04/20/2016 12:22 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> I'm assuming he'll continue to use -n because if he doesn't it's toast. > Oh, good point, I missed that! :-) Yes, thank you ! === Please consider the environ

Re: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 04/20/2016 12:22 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: I'm assuming he'll continue to use -n because if he doesn't it's toast. Oh, good point, I missed that! :-) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/us

Re: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 04/20/2016 12:15 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Weiner, Michael wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> [root@raos_apps01 ~]# mke2fs -n /dev/sdb1 >>> mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006) >>> mke2fs: Filesystem too large. No more than 2

Re: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 04/20/2016 12:15 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Weiner, Michael wrote: [root@raos_apps01 ~]# mke2fs -n /dev/sdb1 mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006) mke2fs: Filesystem too large. No more than 2**31-1 blocks (8TB using a blocksize of 4k) are currently supported.

Re: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Weiner, Michael wrote: > > > [root@raos_apps01 ~]# mke2fs -n /dev/sdb1 > mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006) > mke2fs: Filesystem too large. No more than 2**31-1 blocks > (8TB using a blocksize of 4k) are currently supported. Sounds like it's creating ext2 by defa

Re: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 04/20/2016 11:38 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: [root@raos_apps01 ~]# cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 8 0 976224256 sda 8 1 104391 sda1 8 2 976117432 sda2 816 14643363840 sdb 817 14643362847 sdb1 832 42971168768 sdc 833

RE: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-20 Thread Weiner, Michael
From: ch...@colorremedies.com [mailto:ch...@colorremedies.com] On Behalf Of Chris Murphy On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Weiner, Michael wrote: > From: ch...@colorremedies.com [mailto:ch...@colorremedies.com] On > Behalf Of Chris Murphy > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Weiner, Michael w

Re: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Weiner, Michael wrote: > From: ch...@colorremedies.com [mailto:ch...@colorremedies.com] On Behalf Of > Chris Murphy > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Weiner, Michael wrote: > >>> Because I believe that I built the 15Tb filesystem for ext3 using 8K >>> blocks

RE: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-20 Thread Weiner, Michael
From: ch...@colorremedies.com [mailto:ch...@colorremedies.com] On Behalf Of Chris Murphy On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Weiner, Michael wrote: > >> Because I believe that I built the 15Tb filesystem for ext3 using 8K blocks >> when I s

Re: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Weiner, Michael wrote: > >> Because I believe that I built the 15Tb filesystem for ext3 using 8K blocks >> when I set this up several years back > > What platform was it created on and has been used on unti

RE: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-20 Thread Weiner, Michael
From: ch...@colorremedies.com [mailto:ch...@colorremedies.com] On Behalf Of Chris Murphy On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Weiner, Michael wrote: >> Because I believe that I built the 15Tb filesystem for ext3 using 8K >> blocks when I set this up several years back > What platform was it crea

Re: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Weiner, Michael wrote: > Because I believe that I built the 15Tb filesystem for ext3 using 8K blocks > when I set this up several years back What platform was it created on and has been used on until now? At least XFS, ext4, and Btrfs right now can't mount fil

RE: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-20 Thread Weiner, Michael
From: ch...@colorremedies.com [mailto:ch...@colorremedies.com] On Behalf Of Chris Murphy On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 6:33 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: > I have a Dell PowerEdge R910 with a PERC 700 controller that has a virtual > drive configured as a RAID 5 with 15 disks in it. We're running CentOS

Re: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 6:33 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: > I have a Dell PowerEdge R910 with a PERC 700 controller that has a virtual > drive configured as a RAID 5 with 15 disks in it. We're running CentOS 5.10 > at the moment, and I created a 15Tb ext3 filesystem on that RAID group (set > this

RE: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-20 Thread Weiner, Michael
From: Gordon Messmer [mailto:gordon.mess...@gmail.com] On 04/20/2016 05:33 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: > I received the following error: > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1, # dd if=/dev/sdb1 bs=1k count=1 skip=1 | od -h ... 060 a851 570e 0044 ef53 0001 0001

RE: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-20 Thread Weiner, Michael
From: Samuel Sieb [mailto:sam...@sieb.net] On 04/20/2016 10:07 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: > From: Rick Stevens > > On 04/20/2016 09:32 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: >> I think the concept here is that you ADDED a controller to the system. >> This can cause the system to enumerate the bus differently

Re: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 04/20/2016 05:33 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: I received the following error: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1, # dd if=/dev/sdb1 bs=1k count=1 skip=1 | od -h ... 060 a851 570e 0044 ef53 0001 0001 ... "ef53" is a signature for ext3 filesystems. Do

Re: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 04/20/2016 10:07 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: From: Rick Stevens On 04/20/2016 09:32 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: I think the concept here is that you ADDED a controller to the system. This can cause the system to enumerate the bus differently so your old, existing array may now be /dev/sda or

RE: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-20 Thread Weiner, Michael
From: Rick Stevens On 04/20/2016 09:32 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: >> From: Gordon Messmer >> >>> On 04/20/2016 05:33 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: I had the opportunity to add another PERC H810 controller along with a PowerVault MD1200 to add more space ... when the server came up and I >

Re: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-20 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/20/2016 09:32 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: From: Gordon Messmer On 04/20/2016 05:33 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: I had the opportunity to add another PERC H810 controller along with a PowerVault MD1200 to add more space ... when the server came up and I tried to mount it, I received the fo

RE: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-20 Thread Weiner, Michael
From: Gordon Messmer > On 04/20/2016 05:33 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: >> I had the opportunity to add another PERC H810 controller along with a >> PowerVault MD1200 to add more space ... when the server came up and I tried >> to mount it, I received the following error: >> >> mount: wrong fs typ

Re: Cant read superblocks

2016-04-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 04/20/2016 05:33 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: I had the opportunity to add another PERC H810 controller along with a PowerVault MD1200 to add more space ... when the server came up and I tried to mount it, I received the following error: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /de

Cant read superblocks

2016-04-20 Thread Weiner, Michael
I have a Dell PowerEdge R910 with a PERC 700 controller that has a virtual drive configured as a RAID 5 with 15 disks in it. We're running CentOS 5.10 at the moment, and I created a 15Tb ext3 filesystem on that RAID group (set this up a few years back) that has been running fine up until yesterd