From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (ext-mx12.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.110.17]) by int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p3R400Dg014575 for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0400 Received: from mail-yi0-f46.google.com (mail-yi0-f46.google.com [209.85.218.46]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p3R3xvVQ003333 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 23:59:57 -0400 Received: by yia27 with SMTP id 27so659806yia.33 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:59:57 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: cjstreeter@gmail.com In-Reply-To: References: From: Chris Streeter Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:58:25 -0700 Message-ID: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Recovering Accidentally Destroyed LVM2 Information 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: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: LVM general discussion and development > What you *should* have done is restore the metadata to the point before > your errant command. =EF=BF=BDYou can still do that (if it is still in th= e archive), > but the several K of zeros written to the start of the LV you created will > require recovery. So I still have all the files in the archive of the form raid_vg_0000*.vg If have those files, how would I go about restoring the metadata to the device? If I were to loose several K of data, I'm totally fine with that. Thanks!