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Recovering ext4 superblocks
Recently, my external hard drive enclosure failed (the hard drive itself powers up in another enclosure). However, as a result, it appears its EXT4 file system is corrupt.
The drive has a single ...
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Recover a reiserfs hard disk
I'm unable to mount my 300GB external (in external enclosure) HDD's single partition. None of the fsck tools add anything, they cannot even recognize the partition. I had forgotten whether I had used ...
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e2fsck: unable to set superblock flags on LogicalVolume
When I boot my machine either in normal mode or runlevel 1 it throws following error and I'm unable to boot the machine:
checking filesystems
/dev/MyGroup/LogVol00: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN ...
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lost superblock in md raid
Issue on Red Hat Linux 5.
Due to some miscommunication two LUNs in our environment were enlarged from 1.2 TB to 1.7 TB.
Now, after a reboot, mdadm does not find the superblocks to build the array ...
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Unable to mount /home/ partition after reinstalling grub after reinstalling windows 7
I've reinstall windows 7 on it's asignated partition and, as usually, it override the MBR with it's own stuff and, thus, it was not possible to boot to my ubuntu 12.04 partition.
I followed the step ...
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mdadm - Accidentally ran “mdadm --create” on an existing raid-1. The superblock is now corrupt and I am unable to recover data. Did I bork my data?
I have /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdc2 that were previously setup into a RAID-1 with mdadm, but then I reinstalled and lost the old configuration. Out of idiocy, I ran
sudo mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 ...
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All my superblocks are corrupt!
I am having a problem with my ubuntu ext3 filesystem. I can't boot from it or mount the volume when running live CD.
When I try e2fsck I get: "Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open ...
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Superblock corruption on every boot
I have a Linux Mint 12 install on my laptop. Yesterday I powered it off like I always do and this morning when I started it I was greeted by an error screen.
(Translated from Swedish)
Fatal ...
