[linux-lvm] Can't find LVM partition

[Heinz J . Mauelshagen]

Darryl,

as Patrick said, vgscan should find your LVM partition fine unless it got
written over.

In case just the LVM metadata at the beginning of that partition (~ < 1MB)
got overwritten during install, backups of /etc/lvmconf/* and vgcfgrestore(8)
are your friends as Sander metioned. If more is gone you probably wont't get
back a whole lot of useful data.

Any progress so far?


On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:36:38AM -0400, Stauffer, Darryl wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just got done upgrading from Redhat 7.2 to Redhat 7.3.  My home directory
> was setup on its own partition using LVM and reiserFS.  The upgrade was done
> by formatting the original root partition and reinstalling OS which means
> that all the LVM info is gone.  Is there any way to recover my LVM
> partition?
> 
> Thanks,
> Darryl
> 
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