[linux-lvm] I broke my PVs!

Luca Berra bluca at comedia.it
Sun Oct 20 16:35:01 UTC 2002


On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 03:16:34PM -0500, Austin Gonyou wrote:
>I ran fdisk, then just saved. So I guess you could say I just lost the
>partition table.

ok, you lost lvm metadata...

>> destructive, it only touched disk metadata. so you could try pvcreate,
>> vgcreate and lvcreate.
>> DO A BACKUP OF YOUR RAW DISK DATA FIRST
>
>what about vgcfgrestore from another set of smaller disks that are laid
>out the same way? could that work?
>
>Wish I could, but I can't. Don't have enough disk space. :(

i believe it should be the same...

Heinz? someone?

l.

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