Use RIP (R)ecovery (I)s (P)ossible! (v15.2) to boot up. And use command hexdump /dev/hda1 to collect the old LVM config information. They are nearly 1200. Use the information to create a metadata file. Use cfgrestore to recover. Then mount back the lost LogVol00. Just my two cents. "Andreas Unterkircher" <unki@netshadow.at> ¦b¶l¥ó 448EEF41.7000404@netshadow.at">news:448EEF41.7000404@netshadow.at ¤¤¼¶¼g... > Hi, > > I made a big mistake and deleted a logical volume with some still needed data. > > It was the only active lv and no other write access happened on the physical > disks till yet. Also I have no backup of lvm's metadata. > > Is there any way to recover the lost logical volume? (lvm2) > > Andreas > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/