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2004 Dec 15
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toasted ext3 filesystem under lvm2
...es. Mounting the filesystem manually errors with "invalid
argument". I suspect this is either ext3 corruption, or lvm2 corruption,
or both.
I've made a copy of the partition on another system, and have been testing
various things on that copy, like various fsck commands, e2salvage,
e2extract, but fsck complains about bad superblocks, e2salvage apparently
ran out of memory, and e2extract just listed millions of 0 length files.
I wrote a small python script that hunts for ext3 magic numbers, and it
found some in both a known-good ext3, as well as my corrupt partition
image. The first o...