From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 11:02:32 -0400 From: Jeff Layton Message-id: <3BB09C88.8234FDE4@lmco.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: [linux-lvm] Disk Died - Ideas? 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" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Hello, I searched the mailing list and the web but didn't come up with too much to help me - so I thought I would ask the experts. I had 6 PVs across 6 disks (the first one was just part of the disk, the other 5 spanned the entire drives). On top of this I had vg01 and in that I had lvol1. lvol1 was ext2 formatted and mounted as /home. There is no striping across the disks. The first drive is internal (part of the root disk) and the other five are external to the machine. Well, of course, the last disk gave up the ghost (lots of SCSI errors, machine will not boot without unplugging drives from machine). I'm pretty sure you can guess what I'm going to ask :) Can I just unplug the last drive, bring the system up, don't run fsck on lvol1, mount lvol1, and try to pull as much data as I can off what's left of the filesystem? If this works, then I can just redo the PVs, the VGs, and the LVOLs and recreate the filesystem and move over what data I can recover. Oh, by the way, this filesystem had no backups. The powers to be claimed they were working on a backup solution for us, but they didn't get one in place by the time this drive died. I know, I know. I screamed very loudly, made lots of enemies internally, but still no backups were ever done. It's a good thing they don't allow firearms on the site :> TIA, Jeff Layton Lockheed-Martin