Hi, I'm missing a "lvchange": lvchange -- Logical Volume Change Synopsis: --------- lvchange [-A/--autobackup y/n] [-a/--available y/n] [-C/--contiguous y/n] [-d/--debug] [-h/--help] [-p/--permission r/rw] [-r/--readahead ReadAheadSectors] [-v/--verbose] LogicalVolume[Path] [LogicalVolume[Path]...] Set that device "available"... and the mount should work. cu, Joe >Hi all, > >Can someone help me with my LVM. My machine crashed and failed to boot. > >I am trying to recover the LVM2 as follows but I keep getting erros >can someone help me save my data. > >Here is some info that may help. > >vgscan > Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... > Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2 > >vgdisplay > --- Volume group --- > VG Name VolGroup00 > System ID > Format lvm2 > Metadata Areas 1 > Metadata Sequence No 3 > VG Access read/write > VG Status resizable > MAX LV 0 > Cur LV 2 > Open LV 0 > Max PV 0 > Cur PV 1 > Act PV 1 > VG Size 186.19 GB > PE Size 32.00 MB > Total PE 5958 > Alloc PE / Size 5957 / 186.16 GB > Free PE / Size 1 / 32.00 MB > VG UUID B7Lwfk-8Ltf-RTOr-LxjC-SR0D-LlJw-d6onq0 > >pvscan > PV /dev/mapper/hda2 VG VolGroup00 lvm2 [186.19 GB / 32.00 MB free] > Total: 1 [186.19 GB] / in use: 1 [186.19 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ] > >fdisk -l > >Disk /dev/hda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes >255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders >Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >/dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux >/dev/hda2 14 24321 195254010 8e Linux LVM > > >This is what I get when trying to mount the drive. > >#mount -t ext3 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 /recover/ >mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01, > missing codepage or other error > >Any one got any ideas? -- Dipl.-Ing. Jörg Ventker, RHCE eMail joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Schlösserweg 26 phone (+49)(0)2572-87 14 87 D-48282 Emsdetten mobil (+49)(0)170-44 900 14 (pref)