Re: [linux-lvm] Help.

[Ben Konosky <bkonosky@texas.net>]

That didn't work :( Now that I look at it, that drive must have been the 
first one in the VG/LV :( At least I had most, but not all of the data 
on that LV backed up. Well, now I know better than to use a drive in a 
LV that used to be in a computer that was under adverse conditions(like 
my car), without keeping all the data backed up.

Thanks for all the help,
Ben Konosky



Heinz J. Mauelshagen wrote:

>On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 11:36:47PM -0500, Ben Konosky wrote:
>
>>I had a VG that had three PVs in it, one of the PVs failed, is there any 
>>way to trick the VG into thinking it only has two PVs in it so I can 
>>*try* to mount it and see what data I can pull off the remainder. The 
>>file system is reiserfs, and it was the third PV in the group that died.
>>
>
>Ben,
>
>you mention in our other e-mail, that you had an LV spanning all 3 disks
>containig a reiserfs.
>If your PV is lost *and* you don't have an actual backup, you'll loose fs
>data anyway :-(
>
>If you still want to get the LV *partially* back, you need a replacement
>disk/partition of the same size the gone PV had, vgcfgrestore(8) the LVM
>metadata to it and run "vgscan;vgchange -ay".
>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>Ben Konosky
>>bkonosky@texas.net
>>
>>
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