I've done some googling all night and I haven't found anything that can help me with my current dilemma. :-( I have a HDD that was imaged with Fedora Core 3, and there is some data on there that I want to recover. The data is on an LVM, which occupied just the one drive (it never spanned multiple disks). The problem is that there does not appear to be any logical volumes in the volume group. This was the original layout of the disks: /dev/hda1 ext3 102MB 1 13 /dev/hda2 lvm 39104MB 14 4998 VolGroup00 Size 39040 LogVol00 / ext3 38272 LogVol01 swap 768 I am working from a computer with Fedora Core 4 now, and this old hard drive is mounted as a slave (/dev/hdb). I have tried the following: # pvscan PV /dev/hda2 VG VolGroup00 lvm2 [37.16 GB / 32.00 MB free] PV /dev/hdb2 lvm2 [38.18 GB] Total: 2 [75.33 GB] / in use: 1 [37.16 GB] / in no VG: 1 [38.18 GB] There is no name for me to vgimport. And if I install the drive as a master to this computer, to try and boot from it and transfer the data out, it informs me that it can't find VolGroup00 and refuses to boot. If I take that HDD to a Windows machine and mount it as a slave, explore2fs reads /dev/hdb1 which is just an ext3 partition, but doesn't see the LVM at all. I suspect that I corrupted the structure of the LVM when I was trying to mount it originally. At one point I had run "vgcreate oldhdd /dev/hb2" or something to that effect. None of the processes took more than a second, so I strongly believe that the data itself is still there. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Best regards, Michael. _______________________________________________ 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/
