[linux-lvm] Mounting part of a logical volume?

[roderick tapang]

On 3/17/07, p3tr0x at aol.com <p3tr0x at aol.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>  I have a Fedora Core 6 system with a root volume group (VolGroup00)
> spanning 2 physical drives. Through my own negligence the first drive got
> overwritten when the system was rebooted with a bootable cd in the drive.
> This effectively reformated the primary drive but left the second drive
> intact. What I would like to do is mount the second drive to see if there is
> any data worth retrieving before rebuilding the system.
>
>  I can boot onto a rescue CD so I can access the drive through lvm.
> lvdisplay reports that it cannot find all of the physical volumes which
> makes sense as the other drive was reformatted. pvscan also reports a
> missing drive.
>
>  Can anyone give me a pointer on what might be my next step?

this might help:

http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_85_5843.shtm

>  Thanks!
>  Pete

erik
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