I have a drive with a bad JFS2 superblock. I don't seem to be able to
get fsck to run. Does anyone have a utility to recover some files off
the drive?

Roy

First you need to know what happened to yout "drive".

Superblocks do not just go bad like that (and would they, there's a
backup in the FS structure that fsck would use (or i'm confusing with
ext2?))...

Either your drive is dead, then RIP, either your doing something wrong.

Regards,
JN.

If need to run fsck in the jfs2 filesystems, you seems need to specify
the option. Something like that fsck -j jfs2 .....


Roy wrote:
> I have a drive with a bad JFS2 superblock. I don't seem to be able to
> get fsck to run. Does anyone have a utility to recover some files off
> the drive?
>
> Roy

Sorry, I may have confused you. I can execute fsck. It just gets errors

fsck /work



****************
The current volume is: /dev/lv04
read: The media surface is damaged.
J2_LOGREDO:couldn't read log superblock:failure in
The assert subroutine failed: errno == 5, file j2_logredo.c, line 697
fsck: 0506-042 Execute module "/sbin/helpers/jfs2/fsck" failed.

Brian Leung wrote:
> If need to run fsck in the jfs2 filesystems, you seems need to specify
> the option. Something like that fsck -j jfs2 .....
>
>
> Roy wrote:
>
>> I have a drive with a bad JFS2 superblock. I don't seem to be able to
>> get fsck to run. Does anyone have a utility to recover some files off
>> the drive?
>>
>> Roy

Roy <garlic@garlic.com> wrote in news:420D1803.3020003@garlic.com:

> Sorry, I may have confused you. I can execute fsck. It just gets errors
>
> fsck /work
>
> ****************
> The current volume is: /dev/lv04
> read: The media surface is damaged.
--------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This looks like a disk going bad.

Try to run the certify utility (start with "diag") on the disk(s) that have
the logical volume and the jfs2 log..


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