On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 13:24 -0500, Reid wrote: > Hi, > > Through a number of steps in an attempt to upgrade my server I ended up losing the > lvm.conf configuration file and my backup of it. > > Part of the problem occured when I moved the disks from one controller to another on my > server. For some reason the partition information was lost. This was recovered without > too many troubles leaving me with a boot (ext2) and lvm2 partitions on one drive and a > lvm2 partition on the other. > > I noticed on the LVM how-to that you might be able to recreate the configuration using > pvcreate after looking at /etc/lvm/archive/VolumeGroupName_XXXXX.vg but I am unable to in > this case because the root file system was part of the LVM itself. (If I could mount it > to find out the configuration then I wouldn't be having such a problem!) > > Ideally I would like to be able to create a configuration using Knoppix so that I could > mount the drives and write it onto them. > > The next best thing for me would be to find some way to get the files off of the drives > and onto a spare drive (basically recreate my backup) without losing file names/directory > structure. > Are you still in need of help? If so, do you know the details of your original setup that created the LVM2 configuration (kernel version, lvm version, etc)? I am working on a LVM command/enhancement that will read the LVM information off the drives and allow recreation of the lvm configuration. Let me see if I can get something together for you to try recovery in your situation. _______________________________________________ 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/
