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From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@xunil.at>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] rescuing lvm data
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 22:50:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5088547F.5030808@xunil.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50884E43.8040609@binarywings.net>

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



      reply	other threads:[~2012-10-24 20:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-24 20:08 [gentoo-user] rescuing lvm data Stefan G. Weichinger
2012-10-24 20:23 ` Florian Philipp
2012-10-24 20:50   ` Stefan G. Weichinger [this message]

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