On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 17:44 -0400, Paul wrote:
On Thu, June 29, 2006 7:27 am, William L. Maltby wrote:
On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 00:05 -0400, Paul wrote:
Can anyone point me in the right direction for correcting errors on an HD when using LVM? <snip>
I just finished doing this setup for LVM and now have full boot and run from hda and hdd.<snip>
I'd be glad to share the scripts with the list, if "The List" so desires, or privately. 60KB uncompressed, does almost everything but the grub-install - just haven't automated and tested it - and the needed initrd modification. You won't need that if you just are replacing the drive.
Let me know if you want them.
Thanks for all the info. I'm going to practice up on LVM on my test box. I am totally clueless on it. I am curious if I can change volume size on the fly, now that would be of use.
Yes, you can. Go to... hang tight a sec ...
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
as a decent starting point.
What's funny is that after I was doing all the trouble shooting on it last night, now it's fine, no more crc errors.
I have a similar problem on my (now) hdd drive when I was booting it on hda. After shutdown for awhile might get silent freeze, might get crc error after it started uncompressing, just kept playing and eventually it would boot. My step now that I have a fall-back is to isolate, cable, drive, IDE port, ... whatever so I know what to fix/replace. If it was just a few of the "infant mortality sectors" making their appearance, the drive might be good for years, based on my experience. If new bad keep appearing, a boat anchor in the making...
So I am thinking that the currupt data was on boot slice. But I still gotta know how to work with LVM.
And yes, send me your scripts. I like studying various code. I'm always learning. Thanks!
Nothing fancy here since focus was on LVM learning and getting my butt covered with a new drive and fall-back.
Want them e-mailed to you (the address at From is good and attachment gets through firewall OK??) or I can see if I can post them at the web page Road Runner gives me (allow a day or two to get to it - big trees getting felled and I'm multiplexing).