> Samuel Leuthold wrote: >> So can i release the third disk from the LV, reformat and rebind into it >> without loosing the data on disk1 and 2?? > Yes. But, if you are using striping instead of simple concatenation, you > are, as the saying goes, toast. > However, it may be possible to salvage most of the data from the third > disk too. > Method #1. > Use dd conv=noerror to raw copy data off the bad disk to a fourth, > good disk. Swap the bad disk for the new one. I would use dd_rescue instead of dd. dd_rescure is specifically made for copying data off broken disks. If you have bad sectors you will be much better off with dd_rescue. IF the disk stalls while copying you can tell dd_rescue to copy backwards to avoid reading from that sector again. If you do not have to much bad sectors you should be able to save most data from your filesystem. > Method #2. > If there's free space on the other two disks (or you can add a fourth > disk), you can try pvmove --ignore_read_errors to move as many > extents as possible off the bad disk onto the good ones. >> And what about the reiser? Is it >> consistent after this "hack"?? > No, in all cases you will need to run reiserfsck, most likely with the > -rebuild-tree option. But seeing as your disk has badblocks, your FS is > already in a bad state. Be sure to use most current reiserfsck. Latest is 3.6.11 and can be downloaded from: ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiserfsprogs/ >> Can i do it with these commands?? > If your metadata is intact, you won't need most of that example. You can > search the list archive for my conversation with Heinz a little over a > month or so ago, we went through this exact thing. :-) >> Whats the meaning of >> the "0" in storage\0 ?? > Think of it as an end-of-line character (it's a null-terminated string). _______________________________________________ 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/
