Mounting a LogicalVolume gives "wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock"

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Issue

  • Mounting a Logical Volume fails with the following output:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/oravg/ora03, 
       missing codepage or other error 
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try 
       dmesg | tail  or so
  • /var/log/messages (or dmesg) shows:
kernel: ext3: No journal on filesystem on dm-213

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
  • assuming an ext3 fileystem (but actually is ext2)
  • multipath

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