hi people I have a major problem involving lvm and quite possibly software raid. Here's how it goes ... I installed a machine with 2 identical 200Gb disks and I set them up using software RAID (on Fedora Core 2). I made three partitions on each disk. /boot and / were created on md0 and md1 respectively using ext3. The third partition was setup as a large volume group on md2 which was mounted at /data. Within this vg I set up 3 logical volumes lv-backup, lv-isos, lv-repositories. The installation and setup went great and all was good for a while until the first hard disk /dev/hda died. No problem - I had installed grub on the mirror disk (/dev/hdc) and so was able to boot into the system. Yet again all was going along fine, running on one disk while waiting for a replacement disk to come back from Maxtor. I knew this was not wise to run so long on a single disk but when the boss says to do it - I thought well he knows what he's doing ... And then Mr Murphy and his famous law kicked in and the second drive (the only drive) froze up on me last night! Rebooting the machine, I was able to fsck my way through the /boot and / partition errors but the boot process gets stuck when trying to read the journal for /data/repositories. The /data/backup and /data/isos volumes mounted ok after they recovered their respective journals, but I don't ever get past the 'recovering journal' message for /data/repositories. Needless to say - there is some important data on the /dev/md2 partition inside of the logical volume group lv-repositories. I have tried several live cds but none of them seem to understand that I have any LVM volumes setup. Does anyone have any ideas on how I might be able to restore/mount the /dev/md2 partition - even if it is just enough to copy the data elsewhere?? thanks pantz _______________________________________________ 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/
