On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 19:43 +0000, Rosenstrauch, David wrote: > > > 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 > > Basically just dd the data from the partition on the bad disk to the partition > on the new disk (e.g., "dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/hdb3"). Theoretically, you've > now got a copy of the original partition, and theoretically LVM should be able > to use it just like the old one. Do fsck's on all the relevant partitions > and/or LV's once you're done with this, as there could be glitches that > occurred. Wow - thanks for the quick responses guys! Wouldn't have anything to do with mooching about on a Friday afternoon, catching up on emails coz the work you have to do can wait until Monday ;) I am attempting a bit of a combination of the two suggestions. Editing /etc/fstab to not mount the dodgy partition got me to boot into the system ok - but running fsck gives LOTS of bad looking errors and it just loops on the same bad sector and I have to reboot the machine to get out of it. I am now dd'ing the dodgy partition to a new drive that I installed in the machine. My question now is a bit off topic but what would be the recommended way of dd'ing my corrupt /dev/hdc5 partition to the new /dev/hda drive. - Should I have created a partition on /dev/hda exactly the same size as /dev/hdc5 and then done a 'dd if=/dev/hdc5 of=/dev/hda1'? - Will 'dd if=/dev/hdc5 of=/dev/hda' give me something mountable later? - Should I have dd'ed the partition to a file in a partition /dev/hda1 on the new disk and loop mounted it after? Sorry for being OT but I am just interested ... 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/
