From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <39D6A94C.3C40B982@attglobal.net> Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 23:02:36 -0400 From: Les Hazelton MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [linux-lvm] need help to recover my system Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-lvm Errors-To: owner-linux-lvm List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@msede.com I had a Mandrake 7.1 system running the 2.2.17 kernel with LVM and reiserfs patches applied. I have a 15Gb partition on /dev/hdc5 which was one large PV. It supports one VG which has the logical volumes for /usr, /home, /var, etc... Everything except /boot and / which were on the hda drive as plain ext2 file systems. I decided to move the root partition "/" to a logical volume on hdc5 and all was going well until I deleted it from the ext2 system on hda6. So now I have a perfectly good Linux system contained on the hdc5 PV which I can't access. I have test system (Mandrake 7.2-b) on the hda drive. It has the 2.4.0-0.22 kernel distributed my Mandrake and I have been attempting to recover using that system. The problem is I keep getting these errors: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) pvscan -- ERROR "pv_read_all_pv(): lvm_dir_cache" reading physical volumes [root@farpt1 /root]# vgscan -v vgscan -- removing "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) vgscan -- no volume groups found ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I was going to try a pvcreate for /dev/hdc5 but thought it would wipe the partition clean and I don't want to start over if there is *any* hope of recovering it. Please, if anyone knows a way to recover this volume, I would be extremely grateful for the help. Les Hazelton