[linux-lvm] Recovery of a damaged striped volume
Heinz J . Mauelshagen
mauelshagen at sistina.com
Fri Nov 9 03:20:02 UTC 2001
Philipp,
presuming that just the first sectors have been wiped out, your option
is to run vgcfgrestore(8) on the wiped disk, the vgscan + "vgchange -ay".
See the vgcfgrestore(8) manual page for details, please.
Regards,
Heinz -- The LVM Guy --
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 11:20:42PM +0100, Philipp wrote:
> Hello Folks!
>
> My system consists of two brand new IBM Deskstar HDs with 60 GB each,
> connected to a Promise Ultra100 card, the rest of the system doesn't matter
> so far ... these two discs are joined together in a striped volume group.
>
> I've got in some trouble: This week I wanted to reinstall the basic linux
> system. During this process I noticed some mysterious behaviour of one of
> the system discs, and so decided to check and clean that disc with the IBM
> 'Drive Fitness Test' program. But the darn thing ignored my choice and
> whiped out the first few sectors of one of the data discs.
>
> The question: is it possible to restore the striped volume? Or more
> detailed: if I simply repeat the same steps I did when I build up the volume
> (write partition table, create pv's and vg, ...) so that the data on the
> discs is left untouched, will my ReiserFS on that volume be able to restore
> itself? Or is all the data on the discs when I initialize them as 'physical
> volume'?
>
> Many thanks in advance, and please someone help me out of that ... because
> I've got no backups so far :-(
>
> Greetings >>>> Philipp
>
>
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