>>>>> "Heinz" == Heinz J Mauelshagen <mauelshagen@sistina.com> writes: Heinz> On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 11:01:22AM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson Heinz> wrote: >> I have (had) 6 PV's in my VG. The last one crashed (the whole >> disk seems to have broken totaly). >> >> It don't seem possible to restore the information (not without >> spending $$$ to a data recovery company), so how do I get the >> data stored on the OTHER disks? Heinz> You don't spend a single dollar :-) I was referring to restore the lost data on the failed disk .. Heinz> There's 2 solutions: Heinz> A: -- Heinz> Buy a replacemeent drive (say /dev/sdg1 ;-) and run Heinz> fdisk # to partition it the same way the broken one was Heinz> pvcreate /dev/sdg1 vgcfgrestore -f /etc/lvmconf/vg1.conf -n Heinz> vg1 /dev/sdg1 vgscan I'll get a replacement from IBM (the disk is still on warranty), so I'd go for this... Since I have data on the vg, will this still let me keep this, or will it be destroyed when doing the pvcreate/vgcfgrestore? Heinz> B: -- Heinz> If you don't have a replacement drive at hand you can even Heinz> be faster by faking one (you must have loop configured in Heinz> the kernel and use LVM 1.0.2): Heinz> dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/my_sdg1.vgda bs=1k count=512 Heinz> losetup /dev/loop0 /tmp/my_sdg1.vgda pvcreate /dev/loop0 Heinz> vgcfgrestore -f /etc/lvmconf/vg1.conf -n vg1 /devloop0 Heinz> vgscan I'll do this as a temporary solution, while waiting for the replacement. Knowing IBM, it can take a while :) Same question here, will the content on the VG be destroyed? Heinz> Hope that helps :-) It does (at least in the sense that I'll won't loose MORE data :) Thanx. spy NORAD Peking domestic disruption Kennedy subway Ortega president quiche class struggle [Hello to all my fans in domestic surveillance] AK-47 CIA Ft. Bragg attack [See http://www.aclu.org/echelonwatch/index.html for more about this] _______________________________________________ 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