[CentOS] corrupted disk/drive issue...

2008-03-31 Thread bruce
ok... my bad. there is an additional step that has to be done tha t i left out. my apologies. once you've found that you do have the lvms with the: lvm pvscan lvm vgscan lvm lvscan cmds... the lvm(s) might be in an inactive state. if you do a "ls /dev" and you see that you have "/dev/VolGroup0

[CentOS] corrupted disk/drive issue...

2008-03-22 Thread bruce
Hi... Ran into an interesting issue during the past week, and figured I'd post the issue, and solution here in case it might come in handy for someone else... The laptop was running, but it was left on with the lid closed for a day or so.. when powered up, the laptop went into a state saying it c