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Eric S. Johansson <esj@××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:01:28 -0500, Eric S. Johansson wrote: |
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>>> If you machine dies and your backups are |
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>>> "inadequate", you may want to try and recover the disc by putting it |
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>>> into another system. How? If you didn't back up a bunch of magic |
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>>> information from the original system's /etc directory, you're well and |
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>>> truly screwed. |
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>> Or you could run vgscan, provided everything is not auto-detected before |
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>> you get the chance. |
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> if I remember correctly, and it has been quite a while, vgscan only works |
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> if |
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> your lvm.conf is intact. Merging one lvm.conf with one from another |
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> machine is tricky and is not always successful unless you are living with |
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> LVM and then it |
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> is only mostly successful. if you don't have your original lvm.conf, |
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> again if memory serves, you need to go rooting through the first |
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> fewsectors of your disk to find what looks like it might be perhaps, |
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> possibly the data you need. |
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What the heck are you talking about? |
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All that's needed to be done is a vgscan followed by a vgchange. That's |
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it. |
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> in looking for examples for this kind of recovery process, I came across a |
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> rather nice page from our friends at Novell. |
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"friends"? Novell, that's the enemy! |
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Alexander Skwar |
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