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 k9CLpA6A016404 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:51:10 -0400 Received: from java-cup.de (h7339.serverkompetenz.net [81.169.183.84]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k9CLp5BI010131 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:51:05 -0400 From: Martin Wilmes Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 23:50:44 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610122350.46609.martin.wilmes@java-cup.de> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [linux-lvm] Broken hard disk 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, I had a standard Fedora Core 4 installation with the root fs and swap on LVM. I upgraded to Core 5. Everything worked fine. No need to be an LVM guru so far. Then I added a new hard disk to the computer and a partition of this new disk to the root volume. The "new" hard disk then broke down so that I am unable to access the data on the root volume. Now I installed the old, hopefully still working disk in a different computer and booted with Knoppix 5.0.1 to get some of my data back but vgscan -v comes back with nothing at all. fdisk says Disk /dev/hda: 20.5 GB, 20525137920 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2495 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/hda2 14 2495 19936665 8e Linux LVM Any suggestions how to recover that volume? Thanks Martin