[linux-lvm] Recovering PV and LG after fdisk or Repartition
Adam Tybor
adam.tybor at gmail.com
Wed Jan 3 20:48:15 UTC 2007
Hi,
I made a huge mistake last night. I was repartitioning drives in my
system using fdisk. I accidentally fdisk the wrong drive, rebooted,
and lost my lvm2. In light of this error, I did a dd from the
original disk to another disk of the exact same geometry before I
started trying to recover the original.
Here is what I did to try and recover.
Disk 300GB 1 partition of type 8e /dev/sdc1
It had a single volume group on the pv which was /dev/sdc1
I tried recreating the PV using the archive file, that failed. I
forced the creation of the PV on /dev/sdc1 with the uuid from the
archive file, that succeeded.
I then ran:
vgcfgrestore -n vg-storage -t -v -f /etc/lvm/backup/vg-storage vg-storage
This worked and restored my two logical volumes. I then activated the
volumes running vgchange -ay. Now I cannot mount the volumes.
The two volumes had reiserfs, mount will not mount them, a dmesg shows
this error.
ReiserFS: dm-6: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find
reiserfs on dm-6
Running reiserfsck does nothing, it just returns immediately with no output.
I tried rebuilding the super block, the tree, everything. It seems
like reiserfsck cannot find anything.
Is there anything else I can do, I really need this data?
Thanks,
Adam
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