From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 13:33:06 +0100 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Data on LVM-Partition, how to read it out Message-ID: <20010818133306.A533@btconnect.com> References: <00ef01c127de$1121b810$0df1d981@piefke> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <00ef01c127de$1121b810$0df1d981@piefke>; from a.bruns@sauerland.de on Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 02:05:26PM +0200 From: Joe Thornber Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 02:05:26PM +0200, Alexander Bruns wrote: > Resize reiserfs did something but when i wanted to mount the LV it did > not work. reiserfs-checks did not found a problem but the mount-binary > told my something about a superblock...... > > > Abter a reboot I now have the following: > > [root@holodeck lvmconf]# pvdisplay /dev/hda7 > pvdisplay > --- Physical volume --- > PV Name /dev/hda7 > VG Name lvm_volume_01 > PV Size 48.54 GB / NOT usable 1.06 MB [LVM: 169 KB] > PV# 1 > PV Status available > Allocatable yes (but full) > Cur LV 1 > PE Size (KByte) 4096 > Total PE 12425 > Free PE 0 > Allocated PE 12425 > PV UUID cFFBJX-aqxr-P7kU-71OY-pgpX-rvtA-XxVpoc > > But for /dev/hdb5 and /ev/hdc5 it does not show the same. NOTHING!! It looks like you've managed to write over the metadata on the start of /dev/hdb5 and /dev/hdc5. You can confirm this by using the pvdata command. If you have then you will need to restore the metadata from a backup, look at vg_cfgrestore. - Joe