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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm desperate... please help...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>First of all I'm rather new to this LVM business,
but I managed to get a three disc LVM up and running, but now everything is
chaos. One disc just crashed and I can't retrieve any of the information
from the 2 remaining discs, please help me retrieve my data. Yes, it was an IBM
drive, but it was of a rather new model (80GB) and not much used, so I was
rather astonished about the crash.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have read about another guy who also experienced
a disc crash (IBM) and he solved it by replacing the faulty drive with another
one, but he didn't mention how he managed to get it up and running again. Did he
use a replacement drive of the same size? What commands did he have to use in
order to get it up and running again?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've been searching for hours to find any relevant
information about what to do in order to retrieve the remaining data from my
other drives. I'm not good at this so I really don't want to issue any commands
that will delete my remaining data permanently.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here's how it looks like now:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>>pvscan</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may
take a while...)<BR>pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdd1" is associated to
unknown VG "vg01" (run vgscan)<BR>pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hda8" is
associated to unknown VG "vg01" (run vgscan)<BR>pvscan -- total: 2 [139.70 GB] /
in use: 2 [139.70 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0]<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>>vgscan</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may
take a while...)<BR>vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): current PV" can't
get data of volume group "vg01" from physical volume(s)<BR>vgscan --
"/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created<BR>vgscan -- WARNING:
This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume group<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>>lvscan</DIV></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>lvscan -- no volume groups found<BR></DIV></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have no idea what has happened to my volume
group, it seems like it has disappeared. All I can do is scan for the physical
volumes.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What to do next?? I'm still searching for
information relevant to the problem, but please give me a hint or
two...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> /Kim</FONT></DIV>
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