LVM from Fedora to ClearOS
Hello All,
I hope you can help. I have a problem with LVM. I have reinstalled my server with ClearOS from Fedora 17 as I felt that Fedora wasn't right for my needs. Anyway the installation went well but I am having an issue with my LVM partition that was on the previous install. I have 3 disks: 80GB - OS disk 2TB - Files disk 2TB - Files disk [root@fileserver ~]# pvscan PV /dev/sda2 VG vg_fileserver lvm2 [74.04 GiB / 0 free] PV /dev/sdb1 lvm2 [1.82 TiB] PV /dev/sdc1 lvm2 [1.82 TiB] Total: 3 [3.71 TiB] / in use: 1 [74.04 GiB] / in no VG: 2 [3.64 TiB] /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdc1 were part of the same LVM but the Volume group name is missing. I'm guessing that you need to recreate the volume group with vgcreate however I am worried that I this might delete the files already on there. Does anyone know how to recreate the LVM without losing the data on the disk? I have done some reading on this however haven't found the solution. Your help would be much appreciated. Thank you |
Are we to assume you reformatted the OS disk without first saving the /etc/lvm/backup ?.
Try this to get the vg and lvs back as-is Code:
vgchange -ay |
Hasn't worked.Looks like it may be completely messed up. I'm attempting to use testdisk to get files back. But is not looking promising. Luckily I use crashplan so most of the important stuff should be backed up. I think I have learnt the hard way on this one. At least I know that LVM is not as simple to transfer to another server like standard partitions.
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here is an article I've referred people to before, and gives a good idea of what LVM needs to work. Might give you some ideas.
I'm not a huge fan of LVM, but I wouldn't expect just mangling the OS to cause you to lose data is a separate LVM. |
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