From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KuSUH-0007hV-Ez for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:50:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5E2EAE035F; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:50:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from web65406.mail.ac4.yahoo.com (web65406.mail.ac4.yahoo.com [76.13.9.26]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 09764E035F for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:50:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 64130 invoked by uid 60001); 27 Oct 2008 13:50:25 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=QYdQHd2E1SPJUmYt5bHyVyPDUSmhDGFJgQVmZe5FEv78fDvmZA9Ic8ptqyc3I53jWmCFZ1fmnPdFiDYSiGxQl54cNTQEArQYxg8S2GXCMoV1+CZWOmPWreFlZsES4AOWE+WPvRRuZbZGW3A8vaI636vrFCi6NdmHpmEcQXzasxQ=; X-YMail-OSG: 7E1MCHYVM1mHW6_QWvZKc2nLnuZ1TZp_nRbq12KnisU4fzisr2doGjfIojdeoqko44o98N4E39wnFgpin7A2eY.JW1jiO6qN3e7YReSYNeIHUdwsiogOs2u.7nyAjAXoKq5yqBoJAhudMeRAadfSLynMdSLfgljhAOFkCByKOdGQOnYgh0J8qf3u6w-- Received: from [12.52.185.66] by web65406.mail.ac4.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 06:50:25 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/1155.20 YahooMailWebService/0.7.260.1 References: <171517.33986.qm@web65416.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 06:50:25 -0700 (PDT) From: BRM Subject: [gentoo-user] Recovering installed files after hard drive replacement (was LVM Recovery....) To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <108801.63981.qm@web65406.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> X-Archives-Salt: 075d26fe-b6e9-46bd-9719-6905719aa353 X-Archives-Hash: 0f58350916a884dee4d94735cc962b74 Okay, so I got a new hard drive, and got my LVM back up using the 'partial' mode. I haven't lost anything I cared about. Any further hard drive recovery will involve some kind of service and likely lost of $$ - if I cared that much. Any how...I had /opt and /usr/local mapped to the VG - they were the only parts of the VG that were lost. I know some stuff was installed to /opt at the very least (at least java, and netscape extensions). So, are there any existing tools that will detect missing installed files and rebuild those specific builds? Otherwise, I might try to write a script to do it, but I'd prefer something that already exists. The system may be partially hosed until I can resolve this. TIA, Ben ----- Original Message ---- From: BRM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 5:31:01 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LVM Recovery.... Well...I'm fairly certain that data recovery might not be very easy - or cheap for the matter. The system gets stuck during POST while trying to detect the SATA drive. Using "vgreduce --removemissing" will be okay - once I verify the current state of the VG. Is there a way to do so _with_ it trying to detect the existence of the partitions or drives? i.e. skip an integrity check and just print out what it thinks the VG is comprised of - that's really what I want at the moment. Ben ----- Original Message ---- From: Albert Hopkins To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 7:14:30 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LVM Recovery.... vgreduce --removemissing However there's no gaurantee you'll be able to recover your data (LVM is not redundancy). -a