You could stuff in a new drive and 'dd' the contents of the failed
drive to the new drive (if the drive hasn't completely failed) using
the "noerror" option.


Now you might be able to (shutdown) pull the bad drive and reboot.


So far, you've risked nothing.  I'd see how this goes before trying
other things (like editing the lvm labels directly).


 brassow


On Apr 24, 2006, at 4:36 PM, Mag Gam wrote:


<excerpt>Jon:


How would you recover this? Just curious....



On 4/6/06, <bold>Jonathan E Brassow</bold>
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wrote:All the logical volumes on the remaining drive should be
recoverable.

<excerpt>If you striped the two devices, you'll probably be
hurting.  If the 1st 

hard drive is only partially failed (some sectors fail, others don't),

then you should be able to retrieve most of that data too.


  brassow


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> I had one of the two drives in my LVM2 array fail. It was the first

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> recovered? Or have I lost all my data on both drives?

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