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greetings ... |
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the server in my basement is driving me nuts ... and I start making |
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mistakes ... sigh |
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It had a LVM volume group ... consisting of two PVs ... |
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The question in short: |
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if I only have one PV at hand, which contains all the PEs of a given LV |
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... (how) am I able to extract/export/read the contents of that LV? |
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background: |
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when I searched for the reason of those crashes, I removed and swapped |
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and cloned hard disks all around. |
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Right now I am on a brand new machine and want to sort out harddisks etc. |
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One PV wasn't detected correctly ("unknown device") even though it had |
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the correct uuid. I did some "pvcreate -u" on it ... and now those LVs |
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on it aren't accessible anymore (can't mount or even fsck). |
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My luck (I hope!): I have a clone of that harddrive. |
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But I don't want to simply plug it in because I fear to ruin things as I |
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already messed up that VG further by trying stuff like vgcfgrestore etc. |
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Yes, my fault. |
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The clone contains all the blocks for an LV I would like to keep |
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somehow. So I assume it should be possible to access them? |
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(explanation why there is no backup: the data is mythtv-stuff, video |
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which is nice to have, but not critical.) |
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Thanks, Stefan |
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