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 i6SEbMa19689 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 10:37:22 -0400 Received: from smtp105.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp105.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.169.225]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id i6SEbKe1011630 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 10:37:20 -0400 Sender: frank@redhat.com Message-ID: <4107BA18.85D5C3FB@yahoo.de> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 16:37:12 +0200 From: Frank Mohr MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] pvscan fails References: 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: Erik@echohome.org, LVM general discussion and development "Erik Ch. Ohrnberger" wrote: > > Frank, > Sounds like you and me are in similar situations. I lost my > partition tables on a reboot - no idea why, and I'd also like to recover my > data (I've not written to the disks, other than to restore the partician > tables). Below is a summary of my experiences. I ended up using a borrowed > R-Studio and only recovered 38 GB of 170 GB or so. I'd like to be able to > recover more if possible. > > Erik. my problem seem to be some strange currupted LVM configuration on the disks. Partition table is OK, Most output of LVM tools seems OK only pvscan crashes vgimport complains that all 3 PV's are in different VG's (PVdata shows the same VG UUID and VG name) Frank