Hi everybody ... I recently had a lvm crash from which I now have to recover. So now I need your help ... The system is a SUSE 10.1 system with actual patches. # uname -rio 2.6.16.21-0.25-default i386 GNU/Linux # lvm version LVM version: 2.02.02 (2006-02-07) Library version: 1.02.03 (2006-02-08) Driver version: 4.5.0 # There was the unenlightened crash and before there was a volume goup spanning two physical partitions (sda2, sdb2), each on one physical disk (sda, sdb). The system froze (maybe in coincidence with some snapshot-handling) and I had to press the reset button. When rebooting lvm told me he could not open the volume group because one pv was missing. The partition looked OK when checking the partition table. I tried several things - and to do a vgcfgrestore but it did not help. The volume group (system_vg) contained the root partition, so I installed a new system on a third disc and tried to recover the old volume group. Unfortunately when doing the pvcreate for the two physical volumes I did NOT choose the "--zero n" switch. Fact is: I now have the volume group containing two physical discs and two physical volumes with the correct PV UUIDs. But the first sectors are zeroed, aren't they? Any way to recover the LVs of the old volume group? A vgcfgrestore (YES, there was a vgcfgbackup before!) does not work ... bad luck. Ah - and all logical volumes contain Reiser Filesystems V 3.6 - they MUST still be there ... So - what could be my next steps? Bye Richard Kampmann
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