System Recovery

[Labitt, Bruce]

> VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sdb2

Do we know that there was ever an ext3 filesystem there?

[Labitt, Bruce]  It was originally ext3.

Was it maybe something like Reiser or xfs?

The fact that LVM was in play may indeed be a factor here
(or it might simply be the case that the superblock is scrogged)
but my LVM-fu is poor.  If you provide more details about
how that disk was config'd at the time it was taken out
of service we might be able to make some better guesses...
 
(Start of thread has some of the details...)  I LVM'd the bigger disk
(300GB) onto the base system disk (80GB), so I'd have more room.  That
seemed to work.  Then I attached a rogue DVD burner onto my system so I
could burn some dvds.  This proceeded to trash my OS.  (Kernel panics,
etc.)  So I removed the dvd burner and decided to install the OS on the
new larger disk.  I left the 80GB disk unattached.  I have now attached
the 80GB disk and am attempting to copy the data from it to my larger
disk.

So any lvm specialists out there?
-Bruce