On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 11:33:42AM -0400, Stauffer, Darryl wrote: > 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 --- Well, this looks like a whole lot of zeroes at the beginning of /dev/sda5 :( Not really recoverable. > > 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. Nope, sorry. At least you need LVM metadata archive backups (/etc/lvmconf/*) or backups of your data. Both would have been better though... Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- > > 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 > > -- > *** 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