[linux-lvm] help to recovering my home volume
KiKouN
kikoun at kikoun.org
Mon Apr 5 14:45:09 UTC 2010
Hello,
First, sorry for my english.
The other day, I wanted to create a multi-iso usb (for install-
party) but I stupidly copied the image on my main hard drive.
When I have seen my error, I have stop the copy and run
"cat /proc/partitions" to make a backup of my partition table. But the
system was crash before.
I have reboot to a liveCD and make a copy of my disk on an other disk.
I have run testdisk and gpart on this image without success. So I have
make a bash script with dd and grep to find some file or some special
block.
With this script, I have found my last lvm backup text file
( http://pastebin.com/TTSnpr47 )
I want to know if I can make an image file of my home LV with this file
and how to calculate the start/end sector (on the disk) of my home LV.
dd if=sda.img of=home.img bs=512 count=size_of_home_part1
skip=start_sector_of_home_LV
I think that size_of_home_part1 is 11008*8192 but I want to know how to
calculate start_sector_of_home_LV. How to calculate this value ?
In the lvm backup file, I don't know what is the value "pe_start" in pv0
section. What is this value ?
thanks for your help.
Some more info:
# hdparm -g /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
geometry = 14593/255/63, sectors = 234441648, start = 0
My partition table before the crash.
/dev/sda1 /boot ~200Mo
/dev/sda2 /boot2 ~200Mo
/dev/sda3 swap ~1Go
/dev/sda4
/dev/sda5 PV ~107Go
End of disk
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