On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 16:34, Luca Berra wrote: > On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 03:16:34PM -0500, Austin Gonyou wrote: > >I ran fdisk, then just saved. So I guess you could say I just lost the > >partition table. > > ok, you lost lvm metadata... If I lost metadata, what is the best procudure to put it back? I thought, on linux anyway, that pvcreate was descructive. Can someone tell me if I'm wrong there? > >> 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. :( > > i believe it should be the same... If anyone can give me a definitive answer, I'd truly appreciate it! > Heinz? someone? > > 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/
