From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k4VCYYrV023369 for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 08:34:34 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with SMTP id k4VCYVUP018048 for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 08:34:31 -0400 Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 14:34:04 +0200 From: chris MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Subject: [linux-lvm] rescue data after hd crash 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; format="flowed"; delsp="yes"; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@redhat.com hi all! sorry if this is a double post, but i think the first post didn't succeed due to some registration race condition. so here's my problem: I have create a volume group with 4 250GByte harddisks with an ext3 file system on the 1TB result. now the third harddisk failed and the volume group is "dead" - obviously. lvscan tells me (like any other lv*, pv* command): Couldn't find device with uuid 'A57CS6-SFlw-1ROR-uIvO-cX2o-OE2g-N3SVZN'. Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group media_volgrp. in my understanding many of the files should still be intact (those on the first two disks), and I would like to rescue these files. i found no hints about such a crash recovery. (checked http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/) my approach would be to "fake" the third disk, as see what the filesystem makes out of it. any help is welcome. thanks, chris