On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote: > > You mentioned that you were dd'ing stuff of the partially failed drive. > > If you get a replacement drive of the same size, dd everything onto it, > "pvcreate -ff ..." it and vgcfgrestore LVM's metadata onto it. > "vgscan;vgchange -ay" afterwards should bring your VG back to life but you > will loose some of your data. > > As already said by Jon: you want to go RAID1/5. yes, i know i'll loose data. thnx, i'll try that.. i said to the boss to gimme money to buy some disks, then i'll do hw mirroring.. NagyZ _______________________________________________ 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/