Heinz, When I type in pvdata /dev/sda5 I get the following output. --- NEW Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/sda5 VG Name PV Size 0 [0 secs] PV# 0 PV Status NOT available Allocatable NO Cur LV 0 PE Size (KByte) 0 Total PE 0 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 0 PV UUID none --- Volume group --- VG Name VG Access error VG Status NOT available/NOT resizable VG # 0 MAX LV 0 Cur LV 0 Open LV 0 MAX LV Size 0 Max PV 0 Cur PV 0 Act PV 0 VG Size 0 PE Size 0 Total PE 0 Alloc PE / Size 0 / 0 Free PE / Size 0 / 0 VG UUID none --- List of logical volumes --- --- List of physical volume UUIDs --- I'm assuming that it cannot find the LVM partition information. Unfortunately I do not have a backup copy of the /etc/lvmconf/* files. If you know of anything else I could try it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Darryl -----Original Message----- From: Heinz J . Mauelshagen [mailto:mauelshagen@sistina.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 6:32 AM To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Can't find LVM partition Darryl, as Patrick said, vgscan should find your LVM partition fine unless it got written over. In case just the LVM metadata at the beginning of that partition (~ < 1MB) got overwritten during install, backups of /etc/lvmconf/* and vgcfgrestore(8) are your friends as Sander metioned. If more is gone you probably wont't get back a whole lot of useful data. Any progress so far? On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:36:38AM -0400, Stauffer, Darryl wrote: > Hello, > > I just got done upgrading from Redhat 7.2 to Redhat 7.3. My home directory > was setup on its own partition using LVM and reiserFS. The upgrade was done > by formatting the original root partition and reinstalling OS which means > that all the LVM info is gone. Is there any way to recover my LVM > partition? > > Thanks, > Darryl > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
