From: Brian McCullough <bdmc@buadh-brath.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Recovering "broken" disk ( 17th )
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 15:45:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211018194508.GC28815@bdmcc-us.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAMCDedrphwa+RRr1PHLD0SXi8fEDM87zV82302T=twRa5qBZA@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 09:49:44AM -0500, Roger Heflin wrote:
> You will need a lvm backup file for the pvcreate --uuid I believe (there
> may be some option to get around needing the backup file).
>
> That will put the header back on if you either have an lvm backup and/or
> archive file, you might also need a vgcfgrestore afterwards depending on if
> anything else is missing.
>
> I have never done it, but it looks possible to make a lvm backup file by
> reading it directly off the disk with dd, so that you will have a file that
> pvcreate is ok with, that is if there is no way to force it without a
> backup file.
>
> But, this should get the pv back showing up with whatever sectors that you
> successfully recovered.
Thank you, Roger.
I might be able to do that on the original machine, which won't boot at
the moment because of this failure, but I have been using a working
machine so far to use ddrestore etc.
Yes, as you said, I was able to use dd to copy off the vgconfig data
into a file. So you think that I might be able to use that as the
reference in pvcreate? That makes some sense.
I started this out asking ( but not clearly ) whether the data on the
disk appeared to be in the correct place and whether what was there was
correct, but I think that I answered that for myself with the
comparison to the working PV partition.
Thanks again,
Brian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-19 6:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-18 2:17 [linux-lvm] Recovering "broken" disk ( 17th ) Brian McCullough
2021-10-18 14:49 ` Roger Heflin
2021-10-18 19:45 ` Brian McCullough [this message]
2021-10-19 10:06 ` Roger Heflin
2021-10-20 13:38 ` Brian McCullough
2021-10-20 18:01 ` Roger Heflin
2021-10-20 18:04 ` Roger Heflin
2021-10-21 6:13 ` Brian McCullough
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