----- Original Message ----
> From: Chan Chung Hang Christopher <christopher.chan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, 14 August, 2009 3:31:32
> Subject: OT: Fortunate clueless dd chum - lvm recovery
>
> Looks like the chum did not have to lose any data.
>
> Wiping out the MBR and the next 63 blocks apparently only wiped out grub
> stage1, partition table, and part of the lvm config data.
>
>
> I get to try to do a lvm 'recovery' at his expense now but this is my
> first time...has anybody ever tried restoring lvm config data back to
> the md/pv device?
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Christopher
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First of all, I would dd a copy of the whole drive off to another drive, so you can have a few goes at this.
How do you know only those bits where lost?
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