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From: Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org>
To: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Attempting to salvage data from a PV on a damaged disk
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 07:22:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E9EB305.4070503@libertytrek.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3389678474F1634EA260EC27A3C10968025C381E00A1@EXCHMBXSVR.corp.ad>

On 2011-10-18 8:51 PM, Robert Gormley <rgormley@mgcare.com> wrote:
> The system would not boot from the "live disk" due to what appears to be a minor (but not minor enough) disk failure (SMART and other tests pass, but I get some I/O errors before operations work).

What filesystem is on the disk? Maybe you could try something like 
spinrite? I have used it successfully countless times with drives that 
have developed some bad sectors but are otherwise ok...

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-19 11:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-19  0:51 [linux-lvm] Attempting to salvage data from a PV on a damaged disk Robert Gormley
2011-10-19  1:27 ` Ray Morris
2011-10-19  2:24   ` Robert Gormley
2011-10-19 11:22 ` Tanstaafl [this message]
2011-10-19 12:34   ` John Drescher

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