[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) writes: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 03:54:12PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Mounting totaly ignores the partition type anyway. So that did >> nothing. But running pvcreate will have overwritten some data. > > Well if pvcreate was run, and that is all, perhaps looking at the lvm > backup data in /etc can tell what the UUID used to be and pvcreate might > allow you to tell it what uuid you want used on that device. Then lvm > should recognize it again. pvcreate doesn't overwrite the data area of > a pv, just the block containing the size and uuid and such (and the size > shouldn't have changed). Unless I am missing something in my > understanding of LVM that is. If it was not previously an lvm device, > then year whatever was there is not hurt badly. > >> Try mounting with an alternate superblock and mount read-only and save >> whatever you can. > > Len Sorensen
If I read that very confusing mail right then he did run pvcreate on an ext3 filesystem. So the first superblock is probably wiped. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]