From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j2E7r8Y17696 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 02:53:08 -0500 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.207]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j2E7r2F3023349 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 02:53:02 -0500 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 71so2552936wra for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:52:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:52:56 +0200 From: go0ogl3 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM Woes (hope this isn't a repeat. sorry) In-Reply-To: <200503131732.40512.andy_b@softhome.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <200503131732.40512.andy_b@softhome.net> Reply-To: go0ogl3 , LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: andy_b@softhome.net, LVM general discussion and development Hello! I'm new at lvm but maybe Windows just overwrited the first 512 bytes of that disk. Try dd_rescue or search the list arhive you'll find some similar situation (oliver with a hex editor). I hope you'll make it! On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 19:48:47 -0500, Andrew wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > My problem is that I accidentally left my LVM disks in my system when I > installed windows XP On a seperate drive. I did not install windows to > either of the LVM's so that should not be an issue. > > However when I replaced my linux drive, and booted into linux, I got the > following error when my system tried to start up LVM > (for vgchange -ay) > mog root # vgchange -ay > 2 logical volume(s) in volume group "vg0" now active > Logical volume (lv0) contains an incomplete mapping table > Unable to find volume group "vg_samsung" > > vg0 is my other lvm which thankfully is still there. > > now, whenever I do any of the 'scan' tools (vgscan, pvscan, lvscan) I get the > following errors: > vgscan: > ... > Logical volume (lv0) contains an incomplete mapping table > Unable to find volume group "vg_samsung" > > pvscan: > Logical volume (lv0) contains an incomplete mapping table > ... > > lvscan: > ... > Logical volume (lv0) contains an incomplete mapping table > Unable to find volume group "vg_samsung" > > however, if I do pvdisplay on my 2 drives I get some info > mog root # pvdisplay /dev/hde <--my 160gig drive, I think the second drive > in the LVM > > - --- NEW Physical volume --- > PV Name /dev/hde > VG Name /vg_samsung > PV Size 19.84 MB > Allocatable NO > PE Size (K..) 0 > Total PE 0 > Free PE 0 > Allocated PE 0 > PV UUID fXhdbW-S1KK-lSNs-kGSQ-dsb6-9Kkn-Q7xeTk > > That looks bad to me, but the first drive in the volume looks ok: > > mog root # pvdisplay /dev/hdg <--my 80gig drive > - --- Physical volume --- > PV Name /dev/hdg > VG Name /vg_samsung > PV Size 74.56 GB / not usable 31.57 MB > Allocatable yes (but full) > PE Size (K..) 16384 > Total PE 4770 > Free PE 0 > Allocated PE 4770 > PV UUID aE0Tfs-UX8r-oTma-Eo35-mxSg-ZT5w-ZHPPTW > > so it looks like windows only blasted the second of the two drives (which > came first in the bios) (or the > first one it found?) > > I am desperate to get this data back (and unfortunately my /etc/lvm/backup or > archive are empty :( > > Thankyou very much in advance! > - -- > > - --Andrew Bovill > PGP fingerprint: A00A 1E75 3AB0 610E 2300 6855 1890 C61E E590 F777 > Link to PGP key: http://linuxboy.dyndns.org/~andy/public_key.gpg > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFCNN9xGJDGHuWQ93cRAtPnAJ9FbTYTo4qQHq4KAtCgchboewhtRQCfce/l > Bk3ODWAXSpgnJz0i55RJK/Y= > =bymV > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ >