[NTLUG:Discuss] Borked LVM volume -- can anyone help?

[Damien Falgoust]

Finally got some spare time to try this fix...it won't even boot into
failsafe mode!  It just sorta hangs at one point.

I'm in NE Dallas, near Skillman/Audelia.  If anyone can help, I'd be grateful.



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> Hello all.
>
> I'm pretty new at Linux and have been using it as a home file server
> (Suse) for about a year.  Today it stopped recognizing the LVM volume,
> and when I rebooted it wouldn't start up.  (Well, it does, but it
> drops to a command line and demands the root password).
>
> FTR, the LVM volumes do NOT hold system files...that is on a separate
> HDD.  The LVM volume spans two 500GB SATA drives.
>
> Now I've lost access to nearly 800GB of data.  I've Googled on how to
> recover an LVM volume but I just can't make heads or tails of it.  I
> really feel like I'm in over my head on this one.
>
> Are there any NTLUG folks out there who could come take a look,
> perhaps for a small fee?  I'm really at my wit's end here.
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> Damien Falgoust
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> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:59:15 -0600
> From: Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org>
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Borked LVM volume -- can anyone help?
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> Damien Falgoust wrote:
> > Hello all.
> >
> > I'm pretty new at Linux and have been using it as a home file server
> > (Suse) for about a year.  Today it stopped recognizing the LVM volume,
> > and when I rebooted it wouldn't start up.  (Well, it does, but it
> > drops to a command line and demands the root password).
> >
> > FTR, the LVM volumes do NOT hold system files...that is on a separate
> > HDD.  The LVM volume spans two 500GB SATA drives.
> >
> > Now I've lost access to nearly 800GB of data.  I've Googled on how to
> > recover an LVM volume but I just can't make heads or tails of it.  I
> > really feel like I'm in over my head on this one.
> >
> > Are there any NTLUG folks out there who could come take a look,
> > perhaps for a small fee?  I'm really at my wit's end here.
> >
>
> Boot into rescue mode, do an lvmdiskscan.  If a vgscan
> show the volume group, it may simply need to be reactivated.
> Use vgchange -a y your-vg-name
>
> Where are you located?
>
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Damien Falgoust