On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 12:48:58AM +0200, Emmanuel Varagnat wrote: > (yesterday I wrote to lvm-devel@sistina.com, but it seems that it wasn't > the good place for my problem as nobody answer me :o| ) > > My problem, is that I set a VG over 3 IDE disk, and that the first one > crashed. I started writing a tool to recover my data but this tool need > to only read the data that belong to the Ext2 filesystem. > Originally, there were 4 LV in the VG. Would I be able to access the > remaining data of LVs ? And how could I do that ? > > I added the output of vgscan, pvdisplay and pvdata. LVM1 can't retrieve data from a VG with a crashed PV (That's what your backups are for). LVM2 can if you active the VG with the -P (--partial) flag. LVM2 can read LVM2 metadata. patrick _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
