[linux-lvm] Accidental removal of logical volume - any way to salvage?

Alasdair G Kergon agk at redhat.com
Sun Feb 5 17:58:08 UTC 2006


On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 06:53:45PM +0100, Martin Lindquist wrote:
> could anyone first of all tell me if there is any way at all to salvage the
> data from the logical volume "main"? 

man vgcfgrestore if you retained metadata backups from /etc from before
you deleted the LV.

Failing that, if you're using LVM2 you might still be able to salvage
the metadata from the from the front of the disk.

Alasdair
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