Hi, > Server has been rebooted, and now only /dev/vg1/lv1 is shown. parted > can open the lv and shows 1 partition inside, but doesn't understand > ext3 volumes, so can't copy the partition to another disk. tune2fs > can't see /dev/vg1/lv1p1, or I'd use that to change the fs type to ext2. I think the partition entry under /dev is missing. After the initial fdisk it was created. So two ways to recover: -Open fdisk on the lv. Do not do any changes, but leave and (w)rite. I'd say the entries lv1p1 will be re-created then. Mount it, copy the data and get rid of partition. -Use loop device. This is much more complicated but will work, though: losetup -o$[512*63] /dev/loop1 /dev/vg1/lv1 So it will create a loop device /dev/loop1 from lv1 with an offset of 512*63 (default blocksize and partitioning schema, may vary thought) . And then simply mount the loop device with the "-o loop" option for mount. Copy and get rid of partition. Hope this helps, let us know if it does. GReetings Christian _______________________________________________ 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/
