Luca, > >I was having trouble earlier with lilo, and while configuring it, I > >wrote it to the mbr on a disk I had lvm on. The only place I found that > >mentioned this problem was in an email to this list in march 2001, over > >two years ago. It basically said that the lvm disk would be hosed. Is > >there anyway to get the data off the disk? or repair it? > > if you have a recent metadata backup you can try using vgcfgrestore to > put the metadata back on the disk. I didn't back anything up, but doesn't it do that by default? It writes something to /etc/lvmconf right? > > other options depend on what was the disk layout: > was it the only disk you had in the volume group? > are there lv sharing more than one pv? > do you recall the LV layout? The bad disk happens to be the first disk in the group. I didn't do striping. The first disk is completely full, well except for the 512 bytes at the beginning :) There are two other disks as well, the second disk is mostly full, and the third is empty. Thanks, Justin _______________________________________________ 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/
