Gary Duzan on 26 Nov 2016 17:55:21 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] Repairing an LVM volume


In Message <017601d2484f$eabda8c0$c038fa40$@camalytics.com>,
   "Eric H. Johnson" <ejohnson@camalytics.com>wrote:

=>Rich,
=>
=>Running lvs returns LV = root, VG = ubuntu-vg
=>
=>Running fsck /dev/ubuntu-vg returns:
=>"The superblock could not be read or does not describe a valid ext2/ext3/ext4 file system..."
=>
=>Thanks,
=>Eric

   I think you need a cryptsetup invocation to create an unencrypted
device from the encrypted root LV. That will create a new device which
will be available under /dev/mapper which you can mount or run fsck on.

				Gary Duzan


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