Btw, your email client appears to be misconfigured as it fails to quote previous email bodies.
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 03:49:43PM -0700, Michael Mueller alleged:
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
If you were directly mounting /dev/hdb1, then you weren't using LVM.
Perhaps hda was under LVM but hdb wasn't?
Try 'fdisk -l /dev/hdb' and try mounting the largest partition.