Antonio da Silva Martins Junior asmartins@uem.br wrote: ----- "Michael Mueller" escreveu:
I have a centos 4 box i use for a file server (nfs and samba). It has two hdd: hda is for the standard install; hdb is for /export/samba/netdisk0
hda is lost - it just clicks now
i think hdb is still good
i can't figure out how i can remount the hdb disk in a new machine and retrieve the info from it; i've scanned the LVM howto and googled some LVM topics, but nothing seems to address my particular need
i was oblivious to LVM until now, so i did not save anything from the /etc dir on the hda disk
can someone help me get a clue?
Well,
I will first try to boot from the install CD/DVD on rescue mode, if it can't handle the LVM data on the HDD. I will try Ubuntu :)
Can you send more info on the partition schema for this HDD ?
Thanks for your help.
I tried the rescue mode; it only found what was on the new install of 4.3 single server cd;
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
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
-- Mike
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