I have a CentOS-6.8 system which has a suspected HHD failure. I have booted it into rescue mode from a CentOS-6.5 minimal install CD in order to run fsck -c on it. The system hosts several vms. I have activated the lvs associated with these vm using pvscan -s ; vgscan ; vgchange -ay. An lvscan shows the lvs as ACTIVE. None are mounted.
When I try to run fsck on any of them I see the following error:
fsck from util-linux-ng.2.17.2 e2fsck 1.41.12.(17-May-2010) fsck.ext2: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/vg. . .
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or simething else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
Trying to find alternate super-blocks proves futile:
dump2fs /dev/sda2 | grep -i superblock dump2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) dump2fs: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda2 Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock
The file systems on this host were all created as type ext4 and all are lvs with the exception of /boot, which is not an lv and has its own partition on /dev/sda1.
I infer that the HDD is gone the way of all flesh; or ferrite as the case may be. But, my ignorance on this is profound so if I am missing some form of recovery step I would appreciate some guidance on how to proceed.
Thanks,