On Friday 06 July 2007, Michael Mueller wrote:
Thanks,
I did the vgscan after the hdb hdd was added to a fresh system; the hdb disk was not identified as having a volume group
maybe i lost both disks - hda and hdb - doesn't seem likely; more likely that i don't know enough about lvm to get this disk back into a file system
I was almost about to give up on this tread (since you havn't really provided any useful info except for "it doesn't work"). But then I guess I woke up on the right side of the bed or something... ;-)
Lets start at the beginning (you havn't done so yet).
1) please do give us the output of "fdisk -l", this answers does hdb show up, and how is it partitioned.
2) please also include the output of "lvmdiskscan ; pvscan ; pvdisplay", this will tell us if any chunks of lvm data was found.
3) same as 2 for "vgscan ; vgdisplay" but don't bother if 2 didn't find any pvs.
4) same as 3 for "lvscan ; lvdisplay -m" but don't bother if 3 didn't find any vgs.
With this info I'm sure you'll get better advice/help.
/Peter
sigh - i don't really need lvm; waaaaaaa; i wish that system was using pre-lvm partitions; i'd be recovered by now
are there stages for grieving over the loss of a hdd?
thanks again, mike