Hi
The first part might sound like I am in the wrong group, but
bear with me...
(I probably am, but I googled up and down RAID and LVM lists
and I am still stuck):
I have a software RAID 5 with 4 disks and LVM on top. I had
one volume group with two logical volumes (for root and data).
I wanted to upgrade capacity and started by failing a drive,
replacing it with a bigger one and let the RAID resync. Worked
fine for the first disk. The second disk apparently worked
(resynced, all looked good), but after a reboot the system hung.
After some back and forth with superblocks (on the devices,
never on the array) I was able to re-assemble the array clean.
The system still does not reboot though: "Volume group
"cmain" not found".
I booted a live cd, assembled the array and did a pvck on the
array (/dev/md0):
"Could not find LVM label on /dev/md0"
pvdisplay /dev/md0 results in:
No physical volume label read from /dev/md0
Failed to read physical volume "/dev/md0"
I do not have a backup of my /etc/ and therefore no details
regarding the configuration of the LVM setup (yes, I know...)
All I have of the broken system is the /boot partition with its
content
Several questions arise:
- Is it possible to "reconstitute" the LVM with what I have?
- Is the RAID array really ok, or is it possibly corrupt to
begin with (and the reason no LVM labels are around)?
- Should I try to reconstruct with pvcreate/vgcreate? (I
shied away from any *create commands to not make things worse.)
- If all is lost, what did I do wrong and what would I need
to backup for a next time?
Any ideas on how I could get the data back would greatly be
appreciated. I am in way over my head, so if somebody
knowledgeable tells me: "you lost, move on" would be bad, but at
least would save me some time...
Thanks,
Andreas
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