Logical Volumes

[kalcastle]

Here's my problem (amongst many )

When I started playing around with Linux - a friend of mine setup a bunch of Logical Volumes for my ridiculous number of hard drives.

I since have upgraded to bigger, faster, stronger HDs but my old ones remain.

Sadly the old computer was butchered for parts leaving the old hard drives unlabelled and in disorder.

I wanted to access them and transfer the data off each one. Sadly if I connect a hard drive to my new desktop it doesn't recognise it as it part of a fractured LVM.

Can anybody help me salvage my old stuff?

Hope to hear from someone wise - and patient

[oshunluvr]

Have you tried vgreduce to mount the LVM as --partial and with --remove-missing

You might read through this: https://www.novell.com/coolsolutions...anentlyRemoved

[oshunluvr]

Sounds like you use pvscan to get the old LVM UUID then create a new LVM using the old UUID, then restore it and run a file check.

[kalcastle]

Sounds like you use pvscan to get the old LVM UUID then create a new LVM using the old UUID, then restore it and run a file check.

So there's no way of accessing what's on each hard drive without reassembling an LVM?

[kalcastle]

Have you tried vgreduce to mount the LVM as --partial and with --remove-missing

You might read through this: https://www.novell.com/coolsolutions...anentlyRemoved

This sounds promising! I'm a serious newbie though. Hope I can understand the instructions...

[kalcastle]

Thanks for replying oshunluvr!