[Techtalk] rescuing orphaned LVM partitions

[Carla Schroder]

Heh, sort of given up. I still have one orphaned partition I've been saving 
for practicing rescue stuff. I've tried running the usual vgscan etc. 
commands from other partitions and they don't see it. But I have a hunch 
there is a way to rescue the data, I just haven't figured it out yet. I even 
tried TestDisk and PhotoRec, and they didn't work, so I'm thinking somewhere 
in my mucking around the partition table got overwritten. arg.

I forgot about SysrescueCD. I have one floating around somewheres. I've gotten 
lazy in my old age, I like Knoppix for perty GUI-ness. :)

Carla

On Wednesday 08 November 2006 14:01, Cynthia Kiser wrote:
> You have probably solved this or given up by now. But have you tried
> the rescue CD from http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page? I don't have
> any LVM partitions so have no experience - but the docs mention an LVM
> tool - EVMS - as well as several other partition management tools.
>
> Quoting Carla Schroder <carla at bratgrrl.com>:
> > I lost my LVM configs in a kubuntu upgrade (bad me, I did not backup
> > /etc/lvm, bad kubuntu stabbity stab), and now I have some partitions
> > where I cannot access the data. Is there a way to rescue orphaned LVM
> > partitions?
> >
> > Carla
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