I had to re-image a server at 1&1 that
(stupidly...) I allowed to be left running with their vanilla "Plesk." It has a fairly large LVM disk, but of course after re-imaging all of the LV's are back at their tiny size.
What I would like to know is ...
(presuming that they didn't throw away the PV too?) ... is that data still there? Is there a way to get to it?
(I'm not pulling my hair out or anything if it isn't, because this is a throw-away test server, but it
would of course be nice if...)
P.S.: What little 1&1 says about this is here:
http://faq.1and1.com/dedicated_serve...in_help/7.html
Postscript: Notes left by the previous engineer are a bit sketchy, but there
is an empty
/opt mount-point directory here and, IIRC, what probably happened on this box is that a
new LV was allocated, of
some unknown-to-me size, instead of extending the original cramped file systems (which of course would be a destructive process). The existing LV's probably
weren't ever re-defined.
Is it reasonable to allocate an LV and then to see if there magically happens to still be a filesystem there?
