From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k8IJDbuQ031610 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:13:37 -0400 Received: from nibiru.epicideas.net (nibiru.mogmail.net [213.208.82.181] (may be forged)) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k8IJDaYp000963 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:13:37 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.2] (unknown [192.168.0.2]) by nibiru.epicideas.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A040680C7 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:13:16 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] HDD Failure From: Nick In-Reply-To: <450EEEA0.7020703@mdmiller.com> References: <1158603016.7182.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> <450EEEA0.7020703@mdmiller.com> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:13:12 +0100 Message-Id: <1158606792.7182.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: 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: LVM general discussion and development Hi Mitch, Thanks for the response. I understand I won't be able to get all the data back but I have 2x120GB "good" drives left and want to get what's left - is this possible? Thanks, Nick On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 14:08 -0500, Mitch Miller wrote: > Nick -- if I understand your situation properly, you effectively took > one of the platters (the bad drive) out of the drive (the vg) and now > you still want to be able to access the entire drive ... ?? I don't > think that's going to happen. > > Off to the backups, I'd say ... > > -- Mitch