Mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/mapper/bubba-storage, dev/sdf2 LVM physical volumeĮnding with $ sudo mount /dev/bubba/storage /mnt/usb VG UUID 1AHmxk-we3d-86Ji-UxJ1-jO35-ViDm-swxwRT

This may take a while.įound volume group 'bubba' using metadata type lvm2Ġ logical volume(s) in volume group 'bubba' now activeġ logical volume(s) in volume group 'bubba' now activeĪCTIVE '/dev/bubba/storage' inherit I tried some further manipulation: $ sudo vgscan dev/bubba/storage: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 4096: Input/output error dev/bubba/storage: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 989004292096: Input/output error dev/bubba/storage: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 989004234752: Input/output error dev/bubba/storage: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error LV UUID TlYu8Y-JahI-lnNT-Y8Tk-w8TE-CEn7-WD8Ytc Ubuntu complained about LVM2 so I did sudo apt-get install lvm2 and tried to find out a little about LVM2, after which I tried the following $ sudo lvdisplay After trying to resurrect it, I removed the hard-disk and used a SATA-to-USB adapter to attach the hard-disk to a Ubuntu 16.04 x86_64 desktop PC. It was running a customised Debian on PowerPC (MPC8313E). I have a headless Linux mailserver appliance which stopped working.

I found the appliance had used LVM but I was unable to mount the LVM partition on my recovery-PC. I removed the hard disk and attached it via a SATA-to-USB adapter to a freshly installed Ubuntu 16.04 on a desktop PC. I have backups but they are incomplete (new email etc since backup).

The appliance is a proprietary plug&play device based on a PowerPC port of Debian with web-based administration. ) and recovery attempts using a install/rescue image on a USB flash drive failed to get anywhere. My headless email server appliance stopped responding to network connection attempts (IMAP, SSH, Ping. How can I recover files from a hard disk containing LVM2 partitions after extracting the disk from a dead server? In Brief

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