Well, it doesn't look like there is a way I can recover my LVM volume groups and whatnot. (See below) But I know theres a fully intact ReiserFS of 17315mb on /dev/hda6. "gpart" scanned my disk and came up with this: Possible extended partition at offset(249mb) Possible partition(Linux LVM physical volume), size(17315mb), offset(2280mb) type: 142(0x8E)(Linux LVM physical volume) size: 17315mb #s(35461377) s(4670127-40131503) chs: (1023/15/63)-(1023/15/63)d (4633/1/1)-(39812/15/63)r hex: 00 0F FF FF 8E 0F FF FF AF 42 47 00 01 19 1D 02 End scan. Is there some way to "dd" the data off onto another partition and access it there? Because I know the filesystem was only on a single PV, and a single LV, and the problems occured when trying to extend that LV, but I never got to the point of extending the filesystem itself with reiser_resize. You would think I could somehow using the offsets given above create a new partition to copy the data to, run a reiserfsck and rebuild the file system so I can access the data? Has anyone tryed something along these lines before? Quoting IpSo <ipso@snappymail.ca>: > [root@ipso uuid_fixer]# ./uuid_fixer /dev/hda6 /dev/hdc > /dev/hdc - pv_read(): PV identifier invalid > > [root@ipso uuid_fixer]# ./uuid_fixer /dev/hda6 /dev/hdc1 > Error: number of PVs passed in does not match number of PVs in /dev/hdc1's > VG > 2 PVs were passed in and 3 were expected. > > It seems whichever combination I use, it either wants 2 or 3 PVs. > > Quoting Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>: > > > On Jan 06, 2002 11:06 -0800, IpSo wrote: > > > A follow up to this, I downloaded uuid_fixer to see if it would help, > > here's > > > what I tried: > > > > > > [root@ipso uuid_fixer]# ./uuid_fixer /dev/hda6 > > > Error: number of PVs passed in does not match number of PVs in > /dev/hda6's > > VG > > > 1 PVs were passed in and 2 were expected. > > > > > > > > > [root@ipso uuid_fixer]# ./uuid_fixer /dev/hda6 /dev/hdb6 > > > Error: number of PVs passed in does not match number of PVs in > /dev/hdb6's > > VG > > > 2 PVs were passed in and 3 were expected. > > > > > > Hrmm, so it must be looking for the partition I deleted on /dev/hdc. :( > I > > > re-created the partition just to see: > > > > > > [root@ipso uuid_fixer]# ./uuid_fixer /dev/hda6 /dev/hdb6 /dev/hdc1 > > > Error: number of PVs passed in does not match number of PVs in > /dev/hda6's > > VG > > > 3 PVs were passed in and 2 were expected. > > > > Try hda6 and hdc, since this is what you had in the VG before you shut > > down. > > > > Cheers, Andreas > > -- > > Andreas Dilger > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ > > http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > linux-lvm mailing list > > linux-lvm@sistina.com > > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html > > > > > IpSo > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Never worry about viruses in your Email again. > Get your FREE! virus scanned Email accounts at http://snappymail.ca > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html > IpSo -------------------------------------------------------------------- Never worry about viruses in your Email again. Get your FREE! virus scanned Email accounts at http://snappymail.ca