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 (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j1BKbbO19335 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:37:37 -0500 Received: from mail.davidb.org (adsl-64-172-240-129.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [64.172.240.129]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j1BKbZvG004915 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:37:35 -0500 Received: from davidb by mail.davidb.org with local (Exim 4.43 #1 (Debian)) id 1CzhXi-0004HL-Gu for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:37:34 -0800 Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:37:34 -0800 From: David Brown Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] waah waah - disaster recovery Message-ID: <20050211203734.GA16324@old.davidb.org> References: <0B834CEE3453504B82AB821DFB7047C1FF0487@enyc11p32003.corpny.csfb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0B834CEE3453504B82AB821DFB7047C1FF0487@enyc11p32003.corpny.csfb.com> 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" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: LVM general discussion and development On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 07:43:39PM -0000, Rosenstrauch, David wrote: > One other option to consider: perhaps you can use Knoppix as a rescue disk > here. IIRC, the Knoppix Live CD only has LVM 1, but I think I heard about a > Knoppix DVD available somewhere that has LVM 2. This might make the process > easier, as you wouldn't have to worry about getting the OS installed and > running on one of the HD's first. You'd could just run the OS off of the > CD/DVD and do your recovery that way, and deal with installing the OS > afterwards. The latest gentoo liveCD has LVM 2 on it, but in the great gentoo spirit, it is probably out of date. Dave