Chris Doherty <chris.doherty@adelaide.edu.au> writes: >> The filesystem containing /dev has been damaged somehow. You should >> fsck it. Most likely fsck will remove /dev/lvm so you'll have to >> recreate it with proper values. Don't just rm it. Something bad has >> obviously happened and changing things without a proper fsck can make >> things worse. > > thanks. i'll try this tonight and report back. :) my limited > understanding of LVM leads me to believe that the volume group and > logical volume within it are actually still safe and sound in /dev/vg1 Chances are it's still there. > is /dev/lvm just a character device which is used to transmit data > from the volume group (vg1) to the device driver? Yes. > you mention that fsck will probably remove /dev/lvm and that i > should recreate it. is there any risk to vg1/lv1 if i do that? (as > i still haven't successfully backed up anything in it's current > state) You should be fine. If you are paranoid and vg1 is on different disks than the root fs you could unplug them while doing the fsck. -- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
