First of all, thank you for a fast response.

The backup of /etc was done after running 'lvremove' and 'vgexport' so if I
understand you correctly that won't do any good.

Yes, I am using LVM2. How do I salvage the metadata "from the front of the
disk?"

Regards,
Martin

2006/2/5, Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>:
>
> On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 06:53:45PM +0100, Martin Lindquist wrote:
> > could anyone first of all tell me if there is any way at all to salvage
> the
> > data from the logical volume "main"?
>
> man vgcfgrestore if you retained metadata backups from /etc from before
> you deleted the LV.
>
> Failing that, if you're using LVM2 you might still be able to salvage
> the metadata from the from the front of the disk.
>
> Alasdair
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