On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 12:31 -0400, Chris Snook wrote: > Bogdan Sarandan wrote: > > Hello, > > > > > > I want to know if there is any way to recover data from a damage lvm2 > > partition. The case is like this. We had a fedora core 7 server and i ran the > > command fsck when the disk was mounted and running. I was not able to boot > > the disk anymore after I typed fsck. Now that disk is in another computer > > running linux. I am not able to mount that partition anymore. The error is > > like this: > > > > rds:/ # mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/sdb2 mount: unknown filesystem type > > 'LVM2_member' > > > > Can you please tell me a way to recover my data from that lvm2 type partition > > ? > > > > Thanks, > > > > You need to add it to an LVM2 volume group, and then fsck the logical volume. > Your best chance is to use a backup superblock (see man e2fsck) but if the fsck > completed, it's probably wiped out. > > -- Chris > The specific commands you need are vgscan and vgchange; access to the logical volume will be through /dev/mapper/yourVGname-yourLVname (or /dev/yourVGname/yourLVname) and not /dev/sdb* (which is the raw partition containing a PV). (Although the context is different, there are some examples of vgscan/vgchange usage here: http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/159-.html ) -Chris -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines