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I seem to have corrupted my primary LVM partition [1] which contains root and swap partitions.

$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 223.6 GiB, 240057409536 bytes, 468862128 sectors

Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disklabel type: dos

Disk identifier: 0x00025e8d



Device     Boot    Start       End   Sectors  Size Id Type

/dev/sdb1  *        2048   2099199   2097152    1G 83 Linux

/dev/sdb2       39051264 468862127 429810864  205G  5 Extended

/dev/sdb5       39053312 468860927 429807616  205G 8e Linux LVM

gparted says this about /dev/sdb5:

Unable to detect file system! Possible reasons are:

- The file system is damaged

- The file system is unknown to GParted

- There is no file system available (unformatted)

- The device entry /dev/sdb5 is missing

The system doesn't seem able to find the LVM partitions at all:

$ sudo vgchange -ay ubuntu-vg

  Volume group "ubuntu-vg" not found

  Cannot process volume group ubuntu-vg

$ sudo lvscan -av

    Using logical volume(s) on command line.

    No volume groups found.

How can I go about fixing /dev/sdb5?

I'm currently running gpart on /dev/sdb to see if that helps. fsck doesn't work:

$ sudo fsck /dev/sdb5

fsck from util-linux 2.27.1

e2fsck 1.42.13 (17-May-2015)

ext2fs_open2: Bad magic number in super-block

fsck.ext2: Superblock invalid, trying backup blocks...

fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdb5



The superblock could not be read or does not describe a valid ext2/ext3/ext4

filesystem.  If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2/ext3/ext4

filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock

is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:

    e2fsck -b 8193 <device>

 or

    e2fsck -b 32768 <device>

I believe the original filesystem on /dev/sdb5 was "lvm2 pv", and I have the option to format /dev/sdb5 as that via gparted, but before I make things worse, I thought I would ask here.

[1]: I was adding extra space to my boot partition when I corrputed this. I was following directions here, here, and here. This is roughly the order I did things in (to the best of my memory)

• I reduced ubuntu-vg/root by a couple GBs to free up some space


• I tried to pvmove ubuntu-vg/swap, but it complained about not having enough space


• I reduced ubuntu-vg/root some more


• I p4moved ubuntu-vg/swap to push the unallocated space to the end of /dev/sdb2


• I used KDE Partition Manager to move /dev/sdb5 to the end of /dev/sdb2, so that the unallocated space is at the beginning of /dev/sdb2
  
  
  
  
  • I tried to have KDE partition manager then shrink /dev/sdb2 to free up the unallocated space for /dev/sdb1, but it errored out on that operation. I opened gparted, and it told me to reboot, so I did
  
  
  
  


• I opened gparted, and shrunk /dev/sdb2 and grew /dev/sdb1. This is when I noticed that had an error on /dev/sdb5