On 28 May 2013 20:19, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
Googling some of those errors took me to this: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/problem-mounting-che...
The error there was corrupted superblock, and various fscks didn't fix it, but http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
Thanks, I'll give that a go. I've used TestDisk (and PhotoRec from the same place) many times in the past so I "trust" them with my data.
It didn't look like the obvious solution previously because I can access "most" of the data on the disks. Indeed, I now have 5 of my VMs up and running, apparently (not tested well enough to be sure yet) without problems, although they all had some level of (virtual) disk corruption that the O/S tools were able to handle. I have another VM which is booting but lots of system files are missing (I say missing, they're in lost+found but putting them all back in the right places would take months!).
I think I'm at a point where I can get a day's "real" work done so that will have to take priority and I'll come back to analysing the disks later in the week.
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