[linux-lvm] Recovering Accidentally Destroyed LVM2 Information

Chris Streeter chris at chrisstreeter.com
Wed Apr 27 03:58:25 UTC 2011


> What you *should* have done is restore the metadata to the point before
> your errant command.  You can still do that (if it is still in the archive),
> but the several K of zeros written to the start of the LV you created will
> require recovery.

So I still have all the files in the archive of the form raid_vg_0000*.vg

If have those files, how would I go about restoring the metadata to
the device? If I were to loose several K of data, I'm totally fine
with that.

Thanks!




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