On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Yedidyah Bar-David < linux...@didi.bardavid.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:41:38AM +0200, Boris shtrasman wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Yedidyah Bar-David < > > linux...@didi.bardavid.org> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:36:33AM +0200, Boris shtrasman wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Yesterday my harddrive had an inconvenient event: when I was using a > d-i > > > > from testing I accidentally overwritten on of the pv's connected to > the > > > lvm. > > > > I started to panic and found myself making more damage by running > > > vgreduce > > > > --*remove*-*missing* since in one of the rescue files it noted this > is > > > the > > > > way to fix it. > > > [snip] > > > > > > Did you try gpart? > > > -- > > > Didi > > > > > > > > I hope I did not miss something > > > > gparted see the parttion /dev/sda7 and recognize it as lvm but nothing > from > > there. > > except that I got LVM isn't yet supported. > > > > it looks like the metedata is corrupted but the actual information is > there > > (as when you loose the the parrtion table from the mbr (446-510)) > > Not gparted, gpart: > http://www.brzitwa.de/mb/gpart/index.html > "Gpart is a tool which tries to guess the primary partition table of a > PC-type hard disk in case the primary partition table in sector 0 is > damaged, incorrect or deleted." > > If you fail, and still want to resurrect specific files, you can also try > MagicRescue: > http://www.itu.dk/people/jobr/magicrescue/ > -- > Didi > > looks promising thank you And i was dding file by file :-( from the disk ..
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