How differnetly do these two distributions handle lvm2?

About my issue?

Can anyone suggest what to do for a crashed lvm2 formatted drive on a centos system? I was told by two techs that the volume was non repairable and "I believe that the / partition may be corrupted" by another.

Thanks

Kieran Mullen

LVM2 isn't a partition format; the format of the volume is still whatever it was (ext3, for example). LVM2 sets metadata in the first 4 sectors, which doesn't interfere with the filesystem. If you have a problem with a partition, boot to single user mode and run fsck on it. For example:

fsck -C -y /dev/hdb1

Fedora tends to lead Redhat (on which CentOS is based), so the newer software will be on Fedora.

I put it into single user mode while in the GUI grub... now when I boot up off it I get the CLUI grub. I am totally lost.

Thansk for the info and any more to come.

OK, it's hard to tell from your post, but in grub you want to edit the boot entry and add the word "single" (without the quotes) to the end of the kernel line. There's a step-by-step here.

Once in single user mode, the system will prompt with a "#". At this point, you can run fsck on the partition that is causing you a problem. For example, let's say that the partition with the problem is "/dev/hda3". You would then issue this command:

fsck -C -y /dev/hda3

The command will run for a while, and usually fix whatever is wrong with the partition. You can then restart your system normally, by entering the command:

shutdown -r now

Well I would be willing to pay $50 (value of the data) if anyone is able to recover the data plus I would pay for the long distance if anyone could spare some time on the phone with me. I am in the west coast of the US. I had about 15 websites on there but a couple are important to me. (yes I should have kept more backups)

Thanks