It appears I didn't try rescuing the data a moment too soon, as the drive stopped giving me data shortly after writing that message.. And as I predicted, /dev/archive is gone. Is there a way to retrieve it, I imagine the lost device physically had only one logical volume in it? The device had 20 gigabytes of data. I imagine reiserfs cannot handle so big holes in filesystem, so I'll just hope the hole hits one of the smaller, backed up logical volumes instead of the one, huge, non-backed up volume :). The output of vgscan -d is available at http://xulfad.inside.org/~flux/vgscan . Also the latest backup of LVM is at http://xulfad.inside.org/~flux/archive.conf . I imagine I need to somehow remove the invalid device from the volume group, but as I cannot even activate it, it cannot be done with default utilities? Also the now-gone-and-disconnected physical volume contained some data, and cannot be removed from the volume group before the VG knows the device is empty. I can propably get a new disc next week, would that make things easier? -- _____________________________________________________________________ / __// /__ ____ __ Erkki Seppälä\ \ / /_ / // // /\ \/ //ircnet Modeemi Ry\ / /_/ /_/ \___/ /_/\_\@modeemi.fi http://www.modeemi.fi/~flux/ _______________________________________________ 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
