[CentOS] One of my servers wont boot today

Mon Jan 30 23:49:34 UTC 2012
Kahlil Hodgson <kahlil.hodgson at dealmax.com.au>

On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 15:43 -0800, Jason T. Slack-Moehrle wrote:

> It says:
> 
> /dev/VolGroup00/. 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 something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
> 
> So I tried e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/VolGroup00 
> 
> and it seems I get the same error coming up over and over
> 
> I tried:
> 
> fsck -y b=8193 /dev/VolGroup00 as well
> 
> Any thoughts?

You need to fsck each logical volume, not the whole volume group, e.g.

e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01

or whatever.  
Look under /dev/VolGroup00 to see what's there.

K
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