On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 13:23 -0400, Anthony Clark wrote: > Hi, > > The following stupid mistake was made :( A pv, vg and lv were > created, and then the documentation was misread, and a partition was > created inside the lv. Said partition mounted fine, and allowed fs > creation along with large amounts of data to be copied. Partition was > accessible via /dev/vg1/lv1p1. > > 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. > > Is there a way to undo the stupid mistake and get at the partition > inside the logical volume? That is to say, mount the partition, copy > the data out and then create the filesystem correctly. Is there a way > to force /dev/vg1/lv1p1 to show up again? kpartx -a /dev/vg1/lv1 Will create maps for all the partitions defined inside the LV. See man kpartx for the remaining options. Cheers, Bryn. _______________________________________________ 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/
