Re: OT: Fortunate clueless dd chum - lvm recovery

[Chan Chung Hang Christopher <christopher.chan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert Nichols wrote:
> Ross Walker wrote:
>   
>> Since you don't know if LVM has a recovery path how can you imply it  
>> doesn't?
>>     
>
> I've seen plenty of evidence that tools for LVM recovery are lacking.
> I see postings from people asking about recovery of damaged LVM
> volumes and not getting any reasonable answers about how to repair.
>   
This might help in future.
http://anthonydawson.thelasis.com/LVRecovery/index.htm

> Or, complexity of dealing with things like duplicate volume group names
> when physically moving disk drives.  Conventional partitioning works
> just fine for me, and I'm confident that I can handle just about any
> situation that crops up.  I don't need an additional layer of
> complexity.
>
>   
Which is why I do not use default names when creating volgroups and logvols.
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