[linux-lvm] LVM Woes (hope this isn't a repeat. sorry)

[Dan Stromberg]

If it's just the MBR that got wiped, you may be able to just reinstall
grub/lilo and be good to go, but you may also need to use some sort of
partition guesser to see all of your filesystems again.

The group I work in automatically collects our MBR's via our usual,
automated system-statistics collection, the relevant portion of which
looks like:

dd if=/dev/$disk bs=512 count=1 2> /dev/null | \
    openssl base64 -e | \
    sed "s#^#mbr-$disk #"

HTH.

On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 09:52 +0200, go0ogl3 wrote:
> Hello!
> 
>   I'm new at lvm but maybe Windows just overwrited the first 512 bytes
> of that disk. Try dd_rescue or search the list arhive you'll find some
> similar situation (oliver with a hex editor).
> 
> I hope you'll make it!
> 
> On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 19:48:47 -0500, Andrew <andy_b at softhome.net> wrote:
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> > My problem is that I accidentally left my LVM disks in my system when I
> > installed windows XP On a seperate drive.  I did not install windows to
> > either of the LVM's so that should not be an issue.
> > 
> > However when I replaced my linux drive, and booted into linux, I got the
> > following error when my system tried to start up LVM
> > (for vgchange -ay)
> > mog root # vgchange -ay
> > 2 logical volume(s) in volume group "vg0" now active
> > Logical volume (lv0) contains an incomplete mapping table
> > Unable to find volume group "vg_samsung"
> > 
> > vg0 is my other lvm which thankfully is still there.
> > 
> > now, whenever I do any of the 'scan' tools (vgscan, pvscan, lvscan) I get the
> > following errors:
> > vgscan:
> > ...
> > Logical volume (lv0) contains an incomplete mapping table
> > Unable to find volume group "vg_samsung"
> > 
> > pvscan:
> > Logical volume (lv0) contains an incomplete mapping table
> > ...
> > 
> > lvscan:
> > ...
> > Logical volume (lv0) contains an incomplete mapping table
> > Unable to find volume group "vg_samsung"
> > 
> > however, if I do pvdisplay on my 2 drives I get some info
> > mog root # pvdisplay /dev/hde     <--my 160gig drive, I think the second drive
> > in the LVM
> > 
> > - --- NEW Physical volume ---
> > PV Name         /dev/hde
> > VG Name         /vg_samsung
> > PV Size         19.84 MB
> > Allocatable     NO
> > PE Size (K..)   0
> > Total PE                0
> > Free PE         0
> > Allocated PE    0
> > PV UUID         fXhdbW-S1KK-lSNs-kGSQ-dsb6-9Kkn-Q7xeTk
> > 
> > That looks bad to me, but the first drive in the volume looks ok:
> > 
> > mog root # pvdisplay /dev/hdg <--my 80gig drive
> > - --- Physical volume ---
> > PV Name         /dev/hdg
> > VG Name         /vg_samsung
> > PV Size         74.56 GB / not usable 31.57 MB
> > Allocatable     yes (but full)
> > PE Size (K..)   16384
> > Total PE                4770
> > Free PE         0
> > Allocated PE    4770
> > PV UUID         aE0Tfs-UX8r-oTma-Eo35-mxSg-ZT5w-ZHPPTW
> > 
> > so it looks like windows only blasted the second of the two drives  (which
> > came first in the bios) (or the
> > first one it found?)
> > 
> > I am desperate to get this data back (and unfortunately my /etc/lvm/backup or
> > archive are empty :(
> > 
> > Thankyou very much in advance!
> > - --
> > 
> > - --Andrew Bovill
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