hey ext3 gurus - i am desperately looking for some help on a problem where my ext3 filesystem got corrupted my beyond repair the issue i saw the FS size was much less the logical volume size - when we tried to mount it .....so we attempted an fsck - we lost all the data these are the messages we got before the data corruption happened the hal.hotplug seems to have triggered something - the filesystem is on an LVM2 volume with multipathing managing the hba paths to EMC does this ring a bell with anyone ? Feb 24 05:25:27 hal.hotplug[17949]: timout(10000 ms) waiting for /block/dm-24 Feb 24 05:26:09 kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Feb 24 05:26:09 kernel: dm-19: rw=0, want=17334189504, limit=31457280 Feb 24 05:26:09 kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Feb 24 05:26:09 kernel: dm-19: rw=0, want=134217688, limit=31457280 Feb 24 05:26:09 kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Feb 24 05:26:09 kernel: dm-19: rw=0, want=17586972680, limit=31457280 Feb 24 05:26:09 kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Feb 24 05:26:09 kernel: dm-19: rw=0, want=8777633304, limit=31457280 Feb 24 05:26:09 kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Feb 24 05:26:09 kernel: dm-19: rw=0, want=10317744712, limit=31457280 Feb 24 05:26:09 kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Feb 24 05:26:09 kernel: dm-19: rw=0, want=12067501136, limit=31457280 Feb 24 05:26:09 kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Feb 24 05:26:09 kernel: dm-19: rw=0, want=19100288824, limit=31457280 Feb 24 05:26:09 kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Feb 24 05:26:09 kernel: dm-19: rw=0, want=18694536512, limit=31457280 Feb 24 05:26:09 kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Feb 24 05:26:09 kernel: dm-19: rw=0, want=25796951120, limit=31457280 Feb 24 05:26:09 kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Feb 24 05:26:09 kernel: dm-19: rw=0, want=18425691224, limit=31457280 Feb 24 05:26:09 kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Feb 24 05:26:09 kernel: dm-19: rw=0, want=15698503632, limit=31457280 Feb 24 05:26:09 kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Feb 24 05:26:09 kernel: dm-19: rw=0, want=12067501136, limit=31457280 Feb 24 05:26:09 kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Feb 24 05:26:09 kernel: dm-19: rw=0, want=12067501136, limit=31457280 Feb 24 05:26:09 kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Feb 24 05:26:09 kernel: dm-19: rw=0, want=12067501136, limit=31457280 Feb 24 05:26:09 kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Feb 24 05:26:09 kernel: dm-19: rw=0, want=12067501136, limit=31457280 Feb 24 05:26:09 kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device here are some errors from fsck in messages file Feb 24 08:31:02 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device dm-18): ext3_readdir: bad entry in directory #2: inode out of bounds - offset =44, inode=59047937, rec_len=16, name_len=8 thanks!!! Balu <input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>