Andreas Pakulat on Mon 18/08 23:42 +0200: > only wanted to notify everyone, that I could now solve my > problem with hexedit and lvm.h. I changed the Major/Minor > Numbers in both hdXX and then looked at the VG Data, I > found that the one in hdc2 seemed OK, while the one in > hda7 looked like random Data was written in it. So I > copied the VG Metadata into hda7 using dd. A vgscan marked > lvtmp as problematic, it was in hda7 but in the vgmetadata > were only 3 LV's, so I changed that and threw out the LV > Metadata of that particular lv. It is also the one I was > deleting when the hardware error occured. Now I can read > my data again. that's cool investigative work... just wondering out of curiosity...did you have a backup when you did this? :) _______________________________________________ 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/