[linux-lvm] Help.

[Heinz J. Mauelshagen]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 11:36:47PM -0500, Ben Konosky wrote:
> I had a VG that had three PVs in it, one of the PVs failed, is there any 
> way to trick the VG into thinking it only has two PVs in it so I can 
> *try* to mount it and see what data I can pull off the remainder. The 
> file system is reiserfs, and it was the third PV in the group that died.

Ben,

you mention in our other e-mail, that you had an LV spanning all 3 disks
containig a reiserfs.
If your PV is lost *and* you don't have an actual backup, you'll loose fs
data anyway :-(

If you still want to get the LV *partially* back, you need a replacement
disk/partition of the same size the gone PV had, vgcfgrestore(8) the LVM
metadata to it and run "vgscan;vgchange -ay".

> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Ben Konosky
> bkonosky at texas.net
> 
> 
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