Please see http://dcs.nac.uci.edu/~strombrg/data-recovery.html - especially the link about ext3 and LVM2. On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 23:30 -0800, Hale India wrote: > Hi > > I had a recovery problem with LVM before : I failed. I > got no real help from this mailing list. > I finaly succeed to start the disk for a short term on > another machine and I will never use LVM before to see > succeful recovery process. > Nobody at redhat take care about such problem........ > In the future take ext2, ext3, reiserfs and you will > have plenty good recovcery solutions. > > Sorry to not be able to help you more. > Good luke. > > Best regards > > Andre Legendre > > --- mymail mymail <internetbizmail@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com> wrote: > > LVM is not a filesystem, it's a block device layer. > > If you're > > running/using LVM on the existing system it's vgscan > > and vgchange on > > startup should have activated all the old LVs/VGs > > and mapped them to > > /dev/VGNAME/LVNAME -- those are the devices you > > mount. > > Thanks. > > > > I realise this. But the disk I'm trying to mount is > > built the same way as the new disk I've built. So > > the both have a VolGroup00. What I would like to do > > is to either understand how I can change the volume > > group info so it will become a distinct volume > > group, and then I can 'import' this into my new > > environment, or how I can get into the block system > > so I can access the filesystem structure it embeds. > > > > This is where I'm struggling. I would like to create > > a VolGroup01 device file, rename the volume group > > within the physical volume, and then mount that. Is > > it possible to 'hack' the old drive like this? > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > > protection around > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/
