On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 20:04 -0800, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 22:25 +0200, Chris Searle wrote: > --snip-- > > Vol group vg0 consisted of hda3, hdb1 and hdc1 (the plusses and > > minuses of this idea I'm well aware of - at the time it seemed > > appropriate for what I was trying to get working). > > > > Now - hdc burnt out (real smoke, smell of burning plastic, nasty > > clicking noises afterwards if you power it). > > > > So - on boot - lvm can't find vg0. > > > > I've inspected the metadata - and it confirms what I thought > > > > The pv's on hdc1 were a single data storage partition - no /usr, no / > > var etc etc. > > > > So - the usr, var, home etc partitions are fine. > --snip-- > > Is there any way to tell lvm2 that the disk is gone? That the > > metadata file is the correct version? > > I'd start by looking at vgreduce and work up from there. And you're > lucky that you didn't get too greedy with using all of those spindles. I > would have striped all of my lv's across all three drives, and then I > would have been up a creek without a spindle. ;) > Sorry, I just now realized that my threading was broken and I didn't see any of the previous responses to the thread. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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