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. -- Garrick Staples, GNU/Linux HPCC SysAdmin University of Southern California Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070705/eabbacc5/attachment-0005.sig>