Quoting Petro <petro@auctionwatch.com>: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 06:26:36PM -0800, IpSo wrote: > > 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: > > Does the OS recognize /dev/hda6 as a partition? Yup! I'm confident everything as far as the reiser filesystem is fine, just LVM is very confused. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 507 255496+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda2 508 39813 19810224 5 Extended /dev/hda5 508 4633 2079472+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 4634 39813 17730688+ 8e Linux LVM > > > 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? > > If you have the HD space, you could try dd if=/dev/hda6 > of=/some/file > > Then mount -o loop /some/file /mnt/point -t reiserfs. > > I don't think this would do any more damage. > I'll give it a shot I guess, won't this loopback file contain the extra LVM information and cause problems when trying to mount it though? Does the LVM information take up the first 2mb or something that I could set the offset as, so it doesn't carry over to the loopback file? > -- > Share and Enjoy. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
