Re: [gentoo-user] rescuing lvm data

2012-10-24 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 24.10.2012 22:23, schrieb Florian Philipp: > First things first: If you can, make a disk dump of every affected > HDD or at least back up the metadata with vgcfgbackup. > > Have you tried activating the volume group with --partial (see > `man lvm`). Something along the lines of `lvchange --par

Re: [gentoo-user] rescuing lvm data

2012-10-24 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 24.10.2012 22:08, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > > greetings ... > > the server in my basement is driving me nuts ... and I start making > mistakes ... sigh > > It had a LVM volume group ... consisting of two PVs ... > > The question in short: > > if I only have one PV at hand, which conta

[gentoo-user] rescuing lvm data

2012-10-24 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
greetings ... the server in my basement is driving me nuts ... and I start making mistakes ... sigh It had a LVM volume group ... consisting of two PVs ... The question in short: if I only have one PV at hand, which contains all the PEs of a given LV ... (how) am I able to extract/export/read