Re: [gentoo-user] rescuing lvm data

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Am 24.10.2012 22:23, schrieb Florian Philipp:

> First things first: If you can, make a disk dump of every affected
> HDD or at least back up the metadata with vgcfgbackup.
>
> Have you tried activating the volume group with --partial (see
> `man lvm`). Something along the lines of `lvchange --partial -a
> y`).
>
> If that doesn't help, maybe `vgreduce --removemissing --force` will
> do the job.

Florian, thanks for the hints ... "extracted" two smaller LVs already.
The big one seems to span both PVs  ... I will continue tomorrow after
some sleep.

Thanks once more, Stefan