[linux-lvm] Recovery of data in LVM from a corrupt disk

Andy Smith andy at strugglers.net
Thu Dec 22 13:06:07 UTC 2005


On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 04:43:46AM -0800, Hale India wrote:
> 
>    Hi
>    I tried to see my data from knoppix, but for what I remember knoppiux
>    does not support LVM.

It does as I have used knoppix LVM support several times.

http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/search?q=knoppix+lvm

>    From your links I found
>    http://dcs.nac.uci.edu/~strombrg/EXT3-filesystem-recovery-in-LVM2.html
>    Which seems to give some tricks. I don't know if this is capable to
>    work.

There is plenty of good information there.

>    But it seems that LVM project does not take care about that and I find
>    very bad for such a project to give no exit way for such a problem.

I agree that people who aren't willing to do any research or
diagnostic work when they have a failure caused by their broken
hardware should not use LVM or Linux, or computers.

>    It should have some recovery guide documentation in the project.

I would rather they continued developing the software as opposed to
paying people to write documentation covering every possible outcome
of hardware problems which users still will not read.
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