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From: Martin Lindquist <black.ant@gmail.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Accidental removal of logical volume - any way to salvage?
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 19:05:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <77ec93690602051005k3c4d8cbah@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060205175808.GA22481@agk.surrey.redhat.com>

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First of all, thank you for a fast response.

The backup of /etc was done after running 'lvremove' and 'vgexport' so if I
understand you correctly that won't do any good.

Yes, I am using LVM2. How do I salvage the metadata "from the front of the
disk?"

Regards,
Martin

2006/2/5, Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>:
>
> On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 06:53:45PM +0100, Martin Lindquist wrote:
> > could anyone first of all tell me if there is any way at all to salvage
> the
> > data from the logical volume "main"?
>
> man vgcfgrestore if you retained metadata backups from /etc from before
> you deleted the LV.
>
> Failing that, if you're using LVM2 you might still be able to salvage
> the metadata from the from the front of the disk.
>
> Alasdair
> --
> agk@redhat.com
>
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-05 17:53 [linux-lvm] Accidental removal of logical volume - any way to salvage? Martin Lindquist
2006-02-05 17:58 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2006-02-05 18:05   ` Martin Lindquist [this message]
2006-02-05 20:54     ` Alasdair G Kergon
2006-02-06  9:09       ` Martin Lindquist

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