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 (8.12.11.20060308/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k2U6ueHT024332 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 01:56:40 -0500 Received: from sapo.pt (relay3.ptmail.sapo.pt [212.55.154.23]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with SMTP id k2U6udIL004115 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 01:56:39 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO [192.168.10.12]) (op227512@mail.telepac.pt@[81.193.81.25]) (envelope-sender ) by mta11 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 30 Mar 2006 05:56:32 -0000 Message-ID: <442B730E.5080205@netopia.pt> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 06:56:30 +0100 From: "Miguel Bettencourt Dias (Netopia)" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM data recovery ? References: <4429F11D.8010404@netopia.pt> <442AFC4A.4040600@tessco.com> In-Reply-To: <442AFC4A.4040600@tessco.com> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------050904060808030400020301" 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: To: LVM general discussion and development This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------050904060808030400020301 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, thanks for your feedback. Unfortunately I get a metadata checksum error. Would there be a way to recreate the metadata, telling it the number of "partitions" and the size of both ? Just like I could with fdisk... without "touching" the underlying reiserfs ? regards, miguel dias Tom Callahan wrote: > > You may be able to mount the LVM LV's on another system.... > > I'd take some dd backups just in case, and then try attaching the > drives to another system. > > pvscan to see if it finds the PV's > then vgscan to find the VG's > > vgchange -a y will then activate them...but be careful. If the same > VG/LV names are present on the new system, you'll have to use some > renaming trickery to get them to actually show up. > > Thanks, > > Tom Callahan > TESSCO Technologies > Desk: (410)-229-1361 > Cell: (410)-588-7605 > Email: callahant@tessco.com > > A real engineer only resorts to documentation when the keyboard dents > on the forehead get too noticeable. > > > > Miguel Bettencourt Dias (Netopia) wrote: > >> >> Hi All, >> >> I've been reading the arquives and didn't find an answer to my >> problem and I was wondering how data recovery could be done... >> because I have a server that crashed quite badly. It did not have lvm >> backups from /etc/lvm/archive/ and I wanted to recover the LVM. >> >> I only have two partitions, sda1 and sda2. >> sda1 is the /boot. sda2 is LVM, with swap and / (the machine runs >> fedora core 4)with root inside the LVM... now I know that's a bad ideia. >> >> The problem is that I don't have any backups of any LVM information and >> all I know is the size of the partitions inside LVM... >> >> Adding 2031608k swap on /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01. Priority:-1 >> extents:1 across:2031608k >> >> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on >> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 >> 32963596 24207464 8756132 74% / >> /dev/sda1 101086 56597 39270 60% /boot >> /dev/shm 1037328 0 1037328 0% /dev/shm >> >> >> can I conceivably recover the data ? how ? >> >> >> regards, >> miguel dias >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> linux-lvm mailing list >> linux-lvm@redhat.com >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm >> read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ >> > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ --------------050904060808030400020301 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=utf-8; name="mbd.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="mbd.vcf" begin:vcard fn:Miguel Bettencourt de Freitas Dias n:Bettencourt de Freitas Dias;Miguel org;quoted-printable:Netopia, Sistemas de Informa=C3=A7=C3=A3o Global, Lda. adr:;;Apartado 42111;Lisboa;;1601-801 Lisboa;Portugal email;internet:miguel.dias@netopia.pt tel;work:+351917245758 tel;fax:+35166917245758 tel;cell:+351917245758 url:http://www.netopia.pt version:2.1 end:vcard --------------050904060808030400020301--