/dev/sda8 had been wiped out totally The other restore fails : vgcfgrestore -f fileserver fileserver
File descriptor 13 (socket:[7450]) leaked on vgcfgrestore invocation. Parent PID 3952: bash Couldn't find device with uuid fVkJmY-pdwD-bub8-URE8-lNc2-eyhr-IIxIez. Cannot restore Volume Group fileserver with 1 PVs marked as missing. Restore failed. Today ill try to create again an image of the drive (dd all the drive ) in order not make any more damage by restore attempts, Yesterday I found out that the harddrive going to die (errors from the kernel). 2010/10/12 Etzion Bar-Noy <eza...@tournament.org.il> > Bad. Depends on the amount of damage you have created, the following > procedure would work: > I believe the failure is in /dev/sda8, around 30GB, based on your > fileserver lvm backup file. Upload an older one for me to be sure. > pvcreate -u GBsXFQ-RdXS-iMhp-Phle-iqfM-5571-aJgQAa /dev/sda8 > > (if successful), try the following: > in /etc/lvm/backup, find a file describing a good configuration, before you > attempted to force-remove the PV. You can perform the following action then: > vgcfgrestore -f <the file you have found, and hopefully uploaded here> > fileserver > > If successful, run: > vgchange -ay fileserver > and you should be able to mount whatever LV you did not run over with > zeros. > > Good luck > Ez > > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Oron Peled <o...@actcom.co.il> wrote: > >> On Monday, 11 בOctober 2010 11:50:45 Boris shtrasman wrote: >> > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Yedidyah Bar-David < >> > > 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/ >> > >> > looks promising thank you >> > And i was dding file by file :-( from the disk .. >> > >> >> Just take notice that sequencial logical volume (partition) may be not >> sequencial on the physical volume (There's a logical extent to physical >> extent mapping). >> >> However, there is a good chance most/all of your partition is >> sequencial, especially if you created the volume group and the logical >> volumes when the disk was empty (e.g: during installation) without >> requiring a striped logical volume (it's not the default). >> >> Good luck, >> >> -- >> Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 >> o...@actcom.co.il >> http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron<http://users.actcom.co.il/%7Eoron> >> "... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, >> lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their >> C programs." >> -- Robert Firth >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-il mailing list >> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > -- -- -- Boris Shtrasman ------------ |Gnu/Linux Software developer | | IM : bori...@jabber.org | | URL : myrtfm.blogspot.com| _______________________________
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