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From: Patrick Caulfield <caulfield@sistina.com>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Disk crash , LVM and ext2... (bis)
Date: Wed Sep 25 02:22:31 2002	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020925071843.GI1291@tykepenguin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D90EBDA.5070605@free.fr>

On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 12:48:58AM +0200, Emmanuel Varagnat wrote:
> (yesterday I wrote to lvm-devel@sistina.com, but it seems that it wasn't 
> the good place for my problem as nobody answer me :o| )
> 
> My problem, is that I set a VG over 3 IDE disk, and that the first one 
> crashed. I started writing a tool to recover my data but this tool need 
> to only read the data that belong to the Ext2 filesystem.
> Originally, there were 4 LV in the VG. Would I be able to access the 
> remaining data of LVs ? And how could I do that ?
> 
> I added the output of vgscan, pvdisplay and pvdata.

LVM1 can't retrieve data from a VG with a crashed PV (That's what your backups
are for).

LVM2 can if you active the VG with the -P (--partial) flag. LVM2 can read LVM2
metadata.

patrick

  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-25  2:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-24 17:51 [linux-lvm] Disk crash , LVM and ext2... (bis) Emmanuel Varagnat
2002-09-25  2:22 ` Patrick Caulfield [this message]
2002-09-25  2:43   ` Emmanuel Varagnat
2002-09-25  2:57     ` Patrick Caulfield
2002-09-30 17:55       ` Emmanuel Varagnat
2002-10-01  9:53         ` Emmanuel Varagnat
2002-10-04  5:40           ` Heinz J . Mauelshagen
2002-10-09 13:59             ` Emmanuel Varagnat

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