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 iA41SSr03971 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2004 20:28:28 -0500 Received: from mail2.m-cam.com ([63.124.102.77]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iA41SQPw011198 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2004 20:28:26 -0500 Message-ID: <41897E47.40202@m-cam.com> Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 19:56:39 -0500 From: Arshavir Grigorian MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Datarecovery on LVM volumes References: <2E9DA7DCA1129B4DA2DCA703100F387D7C7CCF@deexch.ontrack.com> In-Reply-To: <2E9DA7DCA1129B4DA2DCA703100F387D7C7CCF@deexch.ontrack.com> 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"; format="flowed" To: LVM general discussion and development Cc: hengelland@krollontrack.de hengelland@krollontrack.de wrote: > We got a couple of drives with the partiton identifier "0x8E". They > are all part of an LVM with kind of EXT2 structures. > The EXT2 structures do not look like they usually do ... superblocks > are way different. > I would like to ask if somebody could provide me with some Offset > information how > physical volumes, volume groups and logical volumes work together on a > sector table basis ... > > Many thanks Take a look at /etc/lvm/backup directory for files describing your volume group layout. Also, look into vgcfgbackup and vgcfgrestore. Good luck! Arshavir