[GRLUG] LVM Data Recovery

[Jeff DeFouw]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:33:17PM -0400, Jim Olding wrote:
> I was able to bring the LVM up in partial mode.  xfs_check seems to
> recognize that something XFS related is there, but xfs_repair -n
> complains that no superblocks could be found, and refuses to run.
> I'll probably spend some more time on it tonight, but some of the
> forum posts I've come across paint a grim picture for recovering
> anything.  Thanks everyone for the suggestions.

Does the old sde work at all?  If you can dd_rescue enough data from the 
old sde to a replacement, you might be able to force md1 to come up in 
an inconsistent state and activate the whole volume with whatever data 
is still there.

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Jeff DeFouw <jeffd at i2k.com>