On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 12:28:03PM -0500, Daniel Savard wrote: > 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? "pvcreate -ff /dev/sda7" before you try vgcfgrestore again. > > -- > > ======================================= > 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 -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ 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
