[linux-lvm] broken fs after removing disk from group

Marc des Garets marc at ttux.net
Fri Nov 14 19:30:58 UTC 2014


I am in luck, I rebooted and fsck no longer complains about the size of 
the physical blocks that differ from the filesystem so now it's running 
and I believe it should be successful. I expected the reboot would sort 
this out after I saw the lvdisplay was giving the right size but that 
fdisk -l was not. I can still mount my partition and access the files so 
now I expect fsck to get rid of the files that were on the dead disk and 
which are now obviously giving I/O errors.

On 11/14/2014 08:16 PM, Marc des Garets wrote:
> I got a lot back from this file system. I only lost what was on that 
> dead disk and by chance there weren't much data on it, most is on the 
> other 2. I already know what I lost, I was lucky and it's not very 
> important: some GC heap dumps and some backup of phone sd card.
>
> I made a backup of what was important now and so I'll be trying fsck. 
> I hope it will work because I don't feel like rebuilding my lvm and 
> copy everything again and lose what I consider not important.
>
> Thanks.
>
> On 11/14/2014 06:12 PM, Jack Waterworth wrote:
>> If you get anything back from this file-system I would be impressed. 
>> Losing 200GB of a file-system isnt something small that can just be 
>> "made up" to restore the data. The only options I can think of would 
>> be to (1) restore from backup, (2) copy as much data as you can off 
>> onto a new location, (3) fsck.    #1 is probably the best in your 
>> situation, however if that's not an option you should try to save as 
>> much data as possible (#2).
>>
>> a fsck should be able to repair the file-system back into a "good" 
>> state, but you'll likely lose a lot of data. Can you show us the full 
>> error output you're getting when you try to fsck?
>>
>> Also, keep in mind that this is an LVM mailing list... not a 
>> filesystem one. Perhaps you could get some help in #ext4 on the OFTC 
>> IRC.
>>
>>   Jack
>>
>> On 11/14/2014 03:42 AM, Marc des Garets wrote:
>>> ext2fs_open2: The ext2 superblock is corrupt 
>>
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