Okay, so I got a new hard drive, and got my LVM back up using the 'partial' mode. I haven't lost anything I cared about. Any further hard drive recovery will involve some kind of service and likely lost of $$ - if I cared that much.
Any how...I had /opt and /usr/local mapped to the VG - they were the only parts of the VG that were lost. I know some stuff was installed to /opt at the very least (at least java, and netscape extensions). So, are there any existing tools that will detect missing installed files and rebuild those specific builds? Otherwise, I might try to write a script to do it, but I'd prefer something that already exists. The system may be partially hosed until I can resolve this. TIA, Ben ----- Original Message ---- From: BRM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 5:31:01 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LVM Recovery.... Well...I'm fairly certain that data recovery might not be very easy - or cheap for the matter. The system gets stuck during POST while trying to detect the SATA drive. Using "vgreduce --removemissing" will be okay - once I verify the current state of the VG. Is there a way to do so _with_ it trying to detect the existence of the partitions or drives? i.e. skip an integrity check and just print out what it thinks the VG is comprised of - that's really what I want at the moment. Ben ----- Original Message ---- From: Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 7:14:30 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LVM Recovery.... vgreduce --removemissing However there's no gaurantee you'll be able to recover your data (LVM is not redundancy). -a
