Hi! I have a half physically broken (shaky at least) hard disk with Fedora Core 4 with default disk layout (which means lvm-system). I installed a new Fedora Core 5 on a new disk to rescue as much as possible of the data of the old disk. I was super confused about the LVM-stuff and was acting so very bad.... I started to fiddle with stuff I wasn't in control of... Damn! I think the only thing I actually did was this: vgcreate temp /dev/hdd2 and hdd2 was the only physical volume. I got super scared and I am now super afraid I have made it impossible to rescue anything. I stopped every kind of activity. Please. Can someone tell me if I can rescue the data? ------------- I did a more controlled test after with two fresh disks. And with that setup I realized the only thing I should have done was this: lvchange -ay VolGroup00 then everything should have worked like a charm.... but instead I started to fiddle. Please, please say that I can save the data! -------------- I tried to simulate my situation (with another disk) after I got the above solution to work. I tried to do: vgcreate temp /dev/hdd2 but it didn't work.... so that confused me some, becuse I am almost sure that was the only thing I did with my broken disk. ------------ Perhaps something was fucked up bye the fact that I had the same volume configuration (and names) with hda and hdd when I did my first try. Thanks for every kind of input! Erik S erik@starback.se -- Erik Starbäck Harpsund, Slänten 640 31 Mellösa 0157-60066 070-7653093 _______________________________________________ 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/
