Re: [linux-lvm] Can't mount after crash

[Daniel Roth <d00roth dtek chalmers se>]

> I have my data back now. As a reminder, what I did was:
>
> On FC3's rescue disk...
>
> 1) Do startup network interfaces
> 2) Don't try to automatically mount the filesystems - not even readonly
> 3) lvm vgchange --ignorelockingfailure -P -a y
> 4) fdisk -l, and guess which partition is which based on size: the small
> one was /boot, and the large one was /
> 5) mkdir /mnt/boot
> 6) mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/boot
> 7) Look up the device node for the root filesystem
> in /mnt/boot/grub/grub.conf
> 8) A first tentative step, to see if things are working: fsck -
> n /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
> 9) Dive in: fsck -f -y /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
> 10) Wait a while...  Be patient.  Don't interrupt it
> 11) Reboot
>  
Thanks Dan! This also restored all my data. Thanks!

Daniel