> Randy Perkins wrote: >> hello, >> I have a lvm setup of 5 PV (disks), 1 VG, and 1 LV. one of the >> drives >> just started clicking, and is not recognizable by the bios. Now when i >> boot up my volume group is not recognized. > > I did have the same problem a long time ago. So I started to write a > tool that would try to recover some the data from the remaining data > available. I lost the first disk of set of 3 disk... > This is quite finished. > It uses the capability of LVM2 to deal with 'partial' VG. > It only works with ext2/ext3 filesystems and require another (temporary) > disk where recovered data will be written. > > The URL is at : http://coredump.free.fr/linux/e2retrieve.php > > I also did a floppy disk with the essential (kernel 2.4.19 with LVM2 > patch, LVM2 tools, Busybox and e2retrieve). > > -=( manu )=- > hello, thanks for the reply. I went to the link you provided but there is no download available. did you mean to say earlier "this is not quite finished". is the download available for e2retrieve ?? I am going to have to study the man pages concerning lvm. I basically studied it enough to get my volume working, and since then I havent had to mess with it. thanks again randy _______________________________________________ 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/
