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From: PeS <pes@sandbox.cz>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Crashed disk with LVM
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:20:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <477DEC64.6050108@sandbox.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a9b19e850712270618p16d62ae9w7200be49ebe74386@mail.gmail.com>

Hiamal wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have tow disks(hda and hdb) where tow partitions(hda2 and hdb1) a
> part of one LVM group VG01.
> Now disk hdb has crashed and I'am trying to save the data on hdb1 to
> another disk.
> I tried with knoppix dumping(dd) hda2(works) and hdb1(don't work) and
> I also tried activating the lvm group and dd the lvm volume but when
> dd comes to hdb1 the disk just hacks and sounds noisy :-P

Instead of dd try dd_rescue. It's able to skip errors on failed disc and 
read the rest.

> What should I do?

During dumping, prepare you regular backup plan ;-)

> /h

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-04  8:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-27 14:18 [linux-lvm] Crashed disk with LVM Hiamal
2008-01-04  8:20 ` PeS [this message]
2008-01-06  1:06   ` Hiamal

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