From: Austin Gonyou <austin@coremetrics.com>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] I broke my PVs!
Date: Sun Oct 20 15:17:02 2002 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1035144994.29693.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021020104912.GD26167@percy.comedia.it>
On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 05:49, Luca Berra wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 11:14:02PM -0500, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> >I have 3 disks, one 9GB and two 18GB scsi disks. I just re-installed my
> >system with RH 8.0, and it didn't like that the two 18's weren't
> >initialized, I guess I screwed up, cause I didn't think I was
> >initializing them(since I told the installer not to), and instead ran
> >fdisk and then saved without making partitions.
> what do you mean with initialized?
> mke2fs? in this case you will find lovely ext2 superblock copies in the
> middle of your data, but then you could salvage most of your data.
I ran fdisk, then just saved. So I guess you could say I just lost the
partition table.
> lost partition table? just recreate it, it is not destructive?
I didn't have any partitions just whole disks.
> lost lvm metadata?
> i s'pose you don't have a metadata backup handy,
> how were your lv's laid out in your vg?
one LV, one VG, and two PVs in the VG, striped. -i2 -I64
> i never tried this on linux, but on hp-ux pvcreate, vgcreate and
> lvcreate weren't
> destructive, it only touched disk metadata. so you could try pvcreate,
> vgcreate and lvcreate.
> DO A BACKUP OF YOUR RAW DISK DATA FIRST
what about vgcfgrestore from another set of smaller disks that are laid
out the same way? could that work?
Wish I could, but I can't. Don't have enough disk space. :(
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-20 15:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-19 23:14 [linux-lvm] I broke my PVs! Austin Gonyou
2002-10-20 5:49 ` Luca Berra
2002-10-20 15:17 ` Austin Gonyou [this message]
2002-10-20 16:35 ` Luca Berra
2002-10-20 18:03 ` Austin Gonyou
2002-10-21 4:55 ` Heinz J . Mauelshagen
2002-10-21 5:15 ` Austin Gonyou
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