On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 05:49, Luca Berra wrote: > On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 11:14:02PM -0500, Austin Gonyou wrote: > >I have 3 disks, one 9GB and two 18GB scsi disks. I just re-installed my > >system with RH 8.0, and it didn't like that the two 18's weren't > >initialized, I guess I screwed up, cause I didn't think I was > >initializing them(since I told the installer not to), and instead ran > >fdisk and then saved without making partitions. > what do you mean with initialized? > mke2fs? in this case you will find lovely ext2 superblock copies in the > middle of your data, but then you could salvage most of your data. I ran fdisk, then just saved. So I guess you could say I just lost the partition table. > lost partition table? just recreate it, it is not destructive? I didn't have any partitions just whole disks. > lost lvm metadata? > i s'pose you don't have a metadata backup handy, > how were your lv's laid out in your vg? one LV, one VG, and two PVs in the VG, striped. -i2 -I64 > i never tried this on linux, but on hp-ux pvcreate, vgcreate and > lvcreate weren't > destructive, it only touched disk metadata. so you could try pvcreate, > vgcreate and lvcreate. > DO A BACKUP OF YOUR RAW DISK DATA FIRST what about vgcfgrestore from another set of smaller disks that are laid out the same way? could that work? Wish I could, but I can't. Don't have enough disk space. :( > L. > -- > Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it > Communication Media & Services S.r.l. > /"\ > \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN > X AGAINST HTML MAIL > / \ > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
