On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 06:14:15PM +1000, Gerald C.Catling wrote: > Hi Guy's, > I am a PCLinuxos user and I have seen references to LVM here ( at SLUG) > I have 3 drives LVM'd to give me 1.3TB of storage space on my server. > The first drive of this set has died. > I was wondering if any of you Guru's could suggest a method of getting any > remaing data from the LVM drives, that is drive 2 and 3, that are left. > I have tried rebuilding the set, wg0, but the system want to reformat the > drive wg0, just created. Is this formatting going to format the real drives > and rather that just the LVM component? > Your help will be much appreciated. > Gerald > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
lvscan might get you started. I've not done much recovery work with lvm under linux, so I'm not really willing to suggest things that might make it worse! You might want to do a dd level backup of the drives just in case. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
