Solution to Corrupt >2TB Filesystem in MSDOS Partition Table

[rjcarr]

Jon Forrest-2 wrote:
> 
> Thanks to Ted and several others, I was
> able to recover 100% of the corrupted
> file system that I posted about last week.
> (This was an >2TB ext3 file system that had been
> created in a MSDOS partition which had worked
> until the server was rebooted, at which time
> it wouldn't mount and fsck wouldn't fix the
> problem.)

I just wanted to add that I had the same exact situation and this solution
also worked for me.  My only difference was my filesystem was xfs (not
ext3), also, in this part:



> 3) I then used the parted "rescue" command
> to recreate the partition. I gave it the original
> starting point at the start value and "-1s" as
> the ending value.
> 

I knew the exact end value from when I created the partition, so I used it
instead of -1.  Not sure if it would have worked it out had I used -1, but I
thought my number safer.
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