System Recovery

[Michael ODonnell]

> I LVM'd the bigger disk (300GB) onto the base system disk (80GB)

Uh-ohh.  As I said, my LVM-fu is poor but if the result of
doing that was to create a block device whose aggregated size
was ~380Gb and you then built an ext3 filesystem in that device
from which all but the first 80Gb are now MIA, I suspect you'll
not be able to recover very much...  :-/