On 10/10/05, Yiannis Mavroukakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello :-) > > I had an LVM setup of three disks, and one of them went belly > up..Obvious thought is, use some > distro like R.I.P to reduce the volume to two disks and try and salvage > what I could ..unfortunately reiser4 fsck could not find a superblock > (surprise surprise the disk that died had it) nor could it build the FS > because it cannot find the metadata..Under normal circumstances, I would > not bother but my wife's mp3's are in those disks and she will have my > head if I don't figure out some way to restore them :) Any suggestions?
Maybe you want to use RAID 5 or something instead of LVM, because of parity, in the future. I suggest you run Spinrite (grc.com, ~$50 IIRC) on the bad disk from a floppy or CD-ROM in DOS (the program makes images for you in Windows, if you have a working partition, or you can get images from the site IIRC once you've bought a copy) and see how much is recovered (assuming it's just bad sectors or something). Re-add it to the LVM, recover to a seperate media, and then convert the whole thing to a RAID (maybe via tar?). I know it's not a free solution, but data recovery is nearly impossible w/o paying in one way, shape, or form. It's easier to have backups. -- ~Mike - Just my two cents - No man is an island, and no man is unable.
