Hi Luca > On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 12:06:55AM +0100, Jannetta S Steyn wrote: >>My problem was that the new system (also FC4 and also a vanilla install) >>already had VolGroup00. I then did a 'vgcreate VolGroup01 /dev/hdb2'. I > vgcreate = msdos format > you just wiped your disk It didn't take very long and didn't give any warnings, so I thought it just wrote the volume name to somewhere on the disk. > if you are certain that the previous logical volume spanned the whole > disk, you can: > # vgdisplay /dev/VolGroup01 vgdisplay /dev/VolGroup01 --- Volume group --- VG Name VolGroup01 System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 1 Metadata Sequence No 3 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV 0 Cur LV 0 Open LV 0 Max PV 0 Cur PV 1 Act PV 1 VG Size 2.93 GB PE Size 4.00 MB Total PE 749 Alloc PE / Size 0 / 0 Free PE / Size 749 / 2.93 GB VG UUID Fv9M5d-0VU8-PiyT-yg4g-FY2C-Ogcc-30klLO > and look at the "Total PE" value, then > # lvcreate -Z n -l TOTAL_PE -n LogVol01 /dev/VolGroup01 What I'm certain about is that there are two partitions on the disk: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 * 1 203 102280+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb2 204 6296 3070872 8e Linux LVM /dev/hdb2 has two physical volumes, the first a swap and the second data. > but i'd rater first try with http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk > which might be able to recover the damage you did. I have downloaded testdisk and this is what I get: TestDisk 6.3, Data Recovery Utility, March 2006 Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org> http://www.cgsecurity.org Disk /dev/hdb - 3249 MB / 3098 MiB - CHS 6296 16 63 Partition Start End Size in sectors * Linux 0 1 1 202 15 63 204561 [/boot] D Linux 203 0 1 5645 15 63 5486544 [/] D Linux LVM 203 0 1 6295 15 63 6141744 D Linux 229 0 1 5560 15 63 5374656 D Linux 265 0 1 5596 15 63 5374656 Any suggestions as to what I could do now? Thanks so far Jannetta Random Thought: --------------- Two men were sitting over coffee, contemplating the nature of things, with all due respect for their breakfast. "I wonder why it is that toast always falls on the buttered side," said one. "Tell me," replied his friend, "why you say such a thing. Look at this." And he dropped his toast on the floor, where it landed on the dry side. "So, what have you to say for your theory now?" "What am I to say? You obviously buttered the wrong side." _______________________________________________ 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/
