Hello! I'm new at lvm but maybe Windows just overwrited the first 512 bytes of that disk. Try dd_rescue or search the list arhive you'll find some similar situation (oliver with a hex editor). I hope you'll make it! On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 19:48:47 -0500, Andrew <andy_b@softhome.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > My problem is that I accidentally left my LVM disks in my system when I > installed windows XP On a seperate drive. I did not install windows to > either of the LVM's so that should not be an issue. > > However when I replaced my linux drive, and booted into linux, I got the > following error when my system tried to start up LVM > (for vgchange -ay) > mog root # vgchange -ay > 2 logical volume(s) in volume group "vg0" now active > Logical volume (lv0) contains an incomplete mapping table > Unable to find volume group "vg_samsung" > > vg0 is my other lvm which thankfully is still there. > > now, whenever I do any of the 'scan' tools (vgscan, pvscan, lvscan) I get the > following errors: > vgscan: > ... > Logical volume (lv0) contains an incomplete mapping table > Unable to find volume group "vg_samsung" > > pvscan: > Logical volume (lv0) contains an incomplete mapping table > ... > > lvscan: > ... > Logical volume (lv0) contains an incomplete mapping table > Unable to find volume group "vg_samsung" > > however, if I do pvdisplay on my 2 drives I get some info > mog root # pvdisplay /dev/hde <--my 160gig drive, I think the second drive > in the LVM > > - --- NEW Physical volume --- > PV Name /dev/hde > VG Name /vg_samsung > PV Size 19.84 MB > Allocatable NO > PE Size (K..) 0 > Total PE 0 > Free PE 0 > Allocated PE 0 > PV UUID fXhdbW-S1KK-lSNs-kGSQ-dsb6-9Kkn-Q7xeTk > > That looks bad to me, but the first drive in the volume looks ok: > > mog root # pvdisplay /dev/hdg <--my 80gig drive > - --- Physical volume --- > PV Name /dev/hdg > VG Name /vg_samsung > PV Size 74.56 GB / not usable 31.57 MB > Allocatable yes (but full) > PE Size (K..) 16384 > Total PE 4770 > Free PE 0 > Allocated PE 4770 > PV UUID aE0Tfs-UX8r-oTma-Eo35-mxSg-ZT5w-ZHPPTW > > so it looks like windows only blasted the second of the two drives (which > came first in the bios) (or the > first one it found?) > > I am desperate to get this data back (and unfortunately my /etc/lvm/backup or > archive are empty :( > > Thankyou very much in advance! > - -- > > - --Andrew Bovill > PGP fingerprint: A00A 1E75 3AB0 610E 2300 6855 1890 C61E E590 F777 > Link to PGP key: http://linuxboy.dyndns.org/~andy/public_key.gpg > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFCNN9xGJDGHuWQ93cRAtPnAJ9FbTYTo4qQHq4KAtCgchboewhtRQCfce/l > Bk3ODWAXSpgnJz0i55RJK/Y= > =bymV > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > 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/
