From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" <mauelshagen@sistina.com>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LV recovery
Date: Mon Dec 9 07:38:02 2002 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021209143005.A19400@sistina.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1039437938.1422.27.camel@lawrence>; from laurie@midafrica.com on Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 02:45:36PM +0200
Lawrence,
vgscan should recognize your VG fine if nothing overwrote the LVM metadata
on /dev/hdc.
What does vgscan dispay ?
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 02:45:36PM +0200, Lawrence Strydom wrote:
> Hi,
> My company uses a SuSE email server III solution. The box has 2 IDE
> drives, hda with /boot, /, and swap partintions on. The second, hdc, was
> placed in a LVG with a LV for /var occupying all availlable space.
> While I was away (quick absolution of self) one of the junior guys did
> an online update of the software after which the system wouldn't start
> again. To make a long story short, I managed to get the system going
> again BUT..... /var cannot be mounted.
> /etc/fstab points to /dev/system/VAR. Upon inspection, this binary file
> turns out to contain nothing but an error message about being unable to
> write to /lib/modules/2.4.18-nnnnn/modules.dep. Ooops...
> Now my question is this: Is it possible to recover the data from the
> /var LV if the /dev/system/VAR file has gone AWOL?
> Any pointers to documentation/tools will be very much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Lawrence
>
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-09 7:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-09 6:42 [linux-lvm] LV recovery Lawrence Strydom
2002-12-09 7:38 ` Heinz J . Mauelshagen [this message]
2002-12-09 9:31 ` Lawrence Strydom
2002-12-09 12:15 ` Heinz J . Mauelshagen
2002-12-09 13:15 ` Lawrence Strydom
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