Thanks a lot! I'll give this a try and see what happens! Jason On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Perplexer wrote: > Hi. I think I had a similar problem myself a few days ago. > Unfortunately there seemed to be noone willing to help me > out so I tried various stuff myself. I'll try to help you with > what worked for me. > > I couldn't mount my LV with one drive missing from the VG > and I think there are two ways to solve this. One is to put in > an idential drive to the one you lost, use pvcreate on it and > restore the VGDA to it using vgcfgrestore. I myself didn't > have a spare drive but I had a small unused partition on some > other drive which I used instead. I used pvcreate on that > partition and then used vgcfgrestore with the -i option which > ignored the size mismatch between my partition and the previous > drive that was in. > > I used: > > vgcfgrestore - vg1 -i -o /dev/hdc1 -v /dev/hdd1 > > where hdc(1) was the old drive that died and hdd1 > was the 'fake' partition. After that I ran vgscan and > activated the VG. That allowed me to mount the LV and > backup the data off it. I later had to recreate the VG and > LV but at least I saved the remaining data. > > I won't say that's the only or the best way to do it but > that's all I've been able to figure out myself which worked > and I guess it's the best suggestion you'll get around here. > > Good luck. > > --------- > Perplexer > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jason P Holland" <jholland@cs.selu.edu> > To: <linux-lvm@redhat.com> > Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 7:43 PM > Subject: Lost Disk, any way to recover data? > > > > > > Hello all, > > > > I just lost a disk in my lvm set, and was wondering if there is a way to > > recover the data from the first disk. I don't believe anything had been > > written to an LE's on the second disk. Is there a way to mount the first > > one and see if my data is still there? Or is this a lost cause and I > > should forget about it? Thanks > > > > Jason > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/ > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > _______________________________________________ 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/
