From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <3B5CD750.300@texas.net> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 21:02:56 -0500 From: Ben Konosky MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Help. References: <3B5A585F.1070003@texas.net> <20010723095222.A10807@sistina.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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"; format="flowed" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com 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 >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>linux-lvm mailing list >>linux-lvm@sistina.com >>http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm >>read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html >> >