First of all, thank you for a fast response.<br><br>The backup of /etc was done after running 'lvremove' and 'vgexport' so if I understand you correctly that won't do any good.<br><br>Yes, I am using LVM2. How do I salvage the metadata &quot;from the front of the disk?&quot;
<br><br>Regards,<br>Martin<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2006/2/5, Alasdair G Kergon &lt;<a href="mailto:agk@redhat.com">agk@redhat.com</a>&gt;:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 06:53:45PM +0100, Martin Lindquist wrote:<br>&gt; could anyone first of all tell me if there is any way at all to salvage the<br>&gt; data from the logical volume &quot;main&quot;?<br><br>man vgcfgrestore if you retained metadata backups from /etc from before
<br>you deleted the LV.<br><br>Failing that, if you're using LVM2 you might still be able to salvage<br>the metadata from the from the front of the disk.<br><br>Alasdair<br>--<br><a href="mailto:agk@redhat.com">agk@redhat.com
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