From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petro Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] A way to bypass LVM and extract the raw data off? Message-ID: <20020109023404.GC1096@auctionwatch.com> References: <1010309724.3c381a5ce8cbe@www.snappymail.ca> <1010343969.3c38a0214056f@www.snappymail.ca> <20020106152433.Q12868@lynx.no> <1010359883.3c38de4b3692f@www.snappymail.ca> <1010543196.3c3baa5c40c49@www.snappymail.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1010543196.3c3baa5c40c49@www.snappymail.ca> 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: Date: Tue Jan 8 20:35:02 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 06:26:36PM -0800, IpSo wrote: > Well, it doesn't look like there is a way I can recover my LVM volume groups and > whatnot. (See below) But I know theres a fully intact ReiserFS of 17315mb on > /dev/hda6. "gpart" scanned my disk and came up with this: Does the OS recognize /dev/hda6 as a partition? > Is there some way to "dd" the data off onto another partition and access it > there? Because I know the filesystem was only on a single PV, and a single LV, > and the problems occured when trying to extend that LV, but I never got to the > point of extending the filesystem itself with reiser_resize. You would think I > could somehow using the offsets given above create a new partition to copy the > data to, run a reiserfsck and rebuild the file system so I can access the data? > Has anyone tryed something along these lines before? If you have the HD space, you could try dd if=/dev/hda6 of=/some/file Then mount -o loop /some/file /mnt/point -t reiserfs. I don't think this would do any more damage. -- Share and Enjoy.