le mar 26-02-2002 à 17:56, Andreas Dilger a écrit : > On Feb 26, 2002 17:28 -0500, Daniel Savard wrote: > > I did mkfs.ext2 on /dev/sda8 !!! However, this was still pointing to my > > LVM partition even if fdisk was not showing this. > > > > The big question: Is it still possible to recover some data from the LVM > > partition which was the only partition in my VG? > > Well, mke2fs writes a LOT of data into the partition, being especially > careful to overwrite everything at the start of the disk. It might be > possible to recover this with "vgcfgrestore", but even then you have the > problem of overwriting the rest of the data on the disk. If the primary > ext2 superblock is overwritten on an LV inside this disk, you can use > "e2fsck -b 32768" or so to try and recover. > > Cheers, Andreas > -- > Andreas Dilger > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ > http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ > Since my LVM partition has been moved by the operations on the partitions with fdisk. I had to use the vgcfgrestore command as follow and getting the following error: [root@einstein sbin]# vgcfgrestore -n datavg -o /dev/sda9 /dev/sda7 vgcfgrestore -- INFO: using backup file "/etc/lvmconf/datavg.conf" vgcfgrestore -- ERROR "pv_read(): PV identifier invalid" reading physical volume "/dev/sda7" Is there still something I can try or should I forget it? -- ======================================= Daniel Savard Internet: dsavard@cids.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
