<br><br><b><i>Antonio da Silva Martins Junior <asmartins@uem.br></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <br>----- "Michael Mueller" <eadgbe_mjm@yahoo.com> escreveu:<br>><br>>I have a centos 4 box i use for a file server (nfs and samba). <br>>It has two hdd: hda is for the standard install; hdb is for /export/samba/netdisk0<br>><br>>hda is lost - it just clicks now<br>><br>>i think hdb is still good<br>><br>>i can't figure out how i can remount the hdb disk in a new machine and retrieve the info from it; <br>>i've scanned the LVM howto and googled some LVM topics, but nothing seems to address my particular need<br>><br>>i was oblivious to LVM until now, so i did not save anything from the /etc dir on the hda disk<br>><br>>can someone help me get a clue?<br><br>Well,<br><br> I will first try to boot from the install CD/DVD on rescue mode,
if it can't<br>handle the LVM data on the HDD. I will try Ubuntu :)<br><br> Can you send more info on the partition schema for this HDD ?<br><br><br></eadgbe_mjm@yahoo.com></blockquote>Thanks for your help.<br><br>I tried the rescue mode; it only found what was on the new install of 4.3 single server cd;<br><br>i tried adding mount /dev/hdb1 /export to fstab and rebooted again; /export/samba/netdisk0 was there - but it was just an empty file - probably because of the LV structure on the disk<br><br>it seems to me that if a system is built under LVM and is comprised of multiple disks, recovery out to be quite easy; i must be missing something here; with the pre-LVM partitioning, i would just mount the /dev/hdb1 and be on my way; i am hoping there is a similarly easy way to get my disk back into a file system<br><br>--<br>Mike<br><p>
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