From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] hard disk crash Message-ID: <20021031184941.A2339@sistina.com> References: <3DC14DD0.37D877FE@silicide.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: ; from nagyz@piarista-kkt.sulinet.hu on Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 05:11:51PM +0100 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: Thu Oct 31 11:54:02 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com You mentioned that you were dd'ing stuff of the partially failed drive. If you get a replacement drive of the same size, dd everything onto it, "pvcreate -ff ..." it and vgcfgrestore LVM's metadata onto it. "vgscan;vgchange -ay" afterwards should bring your VG back to life but you will loose some of your data. As already said by Jon: you want to go RAID1/5. On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 05:11:51PM +0100, NagyZ wrote: > On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Jon Bendtsen wrote: > > > BAD idea. How cheap are harddrives these days ? > > don have money ;) > im looking for a solution for this case.. > any idea? > > Nagyz > > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-