From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i9D13fr29828 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 21:03:41 -0400 Received: from mail.travailsystems.net (ns1.travailsystems.net [206.123.72.135]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i9D13Zq5016719 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 21:03:35 -0400 Message-ID: <416C7EE3.9070401@atrixnet.com> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 20:03:31 -0500 From: Tommy Butler MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [linux-lvm] Logical volume recover dilemma 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"; format="flowed" To: LVM general discussion and development OOOPS! That's what I said the other day when I realized what I had just done. I was getting ready to install linux on a hard drive that had previously been used as one disk in a two disk logical volume on a Fedora core 2 server. I logged in and deleted everything from the filesystem on the volume (ext3) that I didn't need to save. There was a lot of data that DID need to be kept however. I started at / and started deleting away. rm -rf /bin /etc /var /home ........etc What I didn't realize was that LVM obviously makes use of some important files on it's resident filesystem in order to keep track of itself. In all my deleting I must have deleted these files, because now I can't get any kind of rescue disk or partitioning software like partition magic to find the volume again. How can I get that precious data back? How can I mount that volume? -- Tommy Butler