[lug] is it possible to recover lvm partitions?

[Bear Giles]

Thanks everyone,

To be clear the disk is mounted on another Linux system now. The rest of
the hardware is old enough to just send it to the big bit bucket in the sky.

Bear


On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Lori Reed <lorireed at lightning-rose.com>wrote:

> On 03/07/2012 06:44 PM, Bear Giles wrote:
>
> > I've hit a snag mounting several LVM partitions and wondered if there's
> > a way to recover the data. The LV are recognized (in /dev/mapper) but
> > when I try to mount the partitions I get a 'missing superblock' error.
> > Even an 'od /dev/mapper/vg00-abc' gives me an I/O error.  Ideas?
>
> I'm no expert, but a few months ago I recovered a GPT LVM drive using
> the guide I found here:
>
>
> http://linuxwave.blogspot.com/2007/11/mounting-lvm-disk-using-ubuntu-livecd.html
>
> I don't know how much it mattered that my LVM drive did not span any
> physical drives.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Lori Reed
> www.Lightning-Rose.com
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