System Recovery

[Michael ODonnell]

>> 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...  :-/
>
> I think your understanding may not be correct.  The 300 GB drive
> is fine.  I have a running system on it now.  I installed Scientific
> Linux from DVD onto it.  I had it scratch / wipe what little data
> was on it.
>
> The 80 GB disk is the original OS disk.


Well, let's wait for some better informed speculation but I do
think it's possible you have (the remnants of) the metadata for
an ~380Gb filesystem on what is actually just an 80Gb disk - not
a good situation, to put it mildly.  Here's hoping I'm wrong...