Eric S. Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:01:28 -0500, Eric S. Johansson wrote: >> >>> If you machine dies and your backups are >>> "inadequate", you may want to try and recover the disc by putting it >>> into another system. How? If you didn't back up a bunch of magic >>> information from the original system's /etc directory, you're well and >>> truly screwed. >> >> Or you could run vgscan, provided everything is not auto-detected before >> you get the chance. > > if I remember correctly, and it has been quite a while, vgscan only works > if > your lvm.conf is intact. Merging one lvm.conf with one from another > machine is tricky and is not always successful unless you are living with > LVM and then it > is only mostly successful. if you don't have your original lvm.conf, > again if memory serves, you need to go rooting through the first > fewsectors of your disk to find what looks like it might be perhaps, > possibly the data you need.
What the heck are you talking about? All that's needed to be done is a vgscan followed by a vgchange. That's it. > in looking for examples for this kind of recovery process, I came across a > rather nice page from our friends at Novell. "friends"? Novell, that's the enemy! Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
