If you used pvcreate to recreate the pv, and/or vgcreate to recreate the vg when you moved the disk, you probably have effectively lost the data.... Not sure about any recovery utilities... sorry The correct way, would have been to add the disk to the new machine, and then issue pvchange -ax y, then vgscan, then vgchange -a y Thanks, Tom Callahan TESSCO Technologies (443)-506-6216 callahant@xxxxxxxxxx A real engineer only resorts to documentation when the keyboard dents on the forehead get too noticeable. urgrue wrote: > I had a single hard drive, containing a single PV, a single VG, and a > single LV (ext3) move from one computer to another. Im trying to > reconstruct the LVM on the new computer with no luck. Currently I > have the PV And VG, but no LV's are to be found. I'm assuming the > metadata has somehow been corrupted. > Is there a way to re-create the LV without erasing the existing data > on the disk? A utility to scan the disk and rebuild the metadata? Or, > is there a way to "dismantle" the LVM and turn it into a normal > ext2/3 filesystem? > > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
