On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 06:14:15PM +1000, Gerald C.Catling wrote: > 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?
Before doing anything else, take a backup of the contents of the drives. Work on the backup if possible - e.g. buy a 1.5T external drive and copy the data before touching anything. LVM can bring up a volume group with one or more devices missing if it knows the existing allocation of Physical Extents. Ext2/Ext3 keeps copies of superblocks at various places within the filesystem so it is possible to recover a corrupted superblock, which may help you to obtain data from the remaining good disks. Nick. -- PGP Key ID = 0x418487E7 http://www.nick-andrew.net/ PGP Key fingerprint = B3ED 6894 8E49 1770 C24A 67E3 6266 6EB9 4184 87E7 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
