Re: LVM

2010-06-15 Thread Gerald C.Catling
On Wednesday, June 16, 2010 02:22:19 pm Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/15/2010 10:55 PM, Mark Allums wrote: > > (Hard disks are commodities; it is as easy to buy two as it is to buy > > one.) > > Unless you are on a tight pension... Very definately!!! Gerald -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

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2010-06-15 Thread Gerald C.Catling
Many thanks to all that responded to try to solve this LVM problem. I could not recover any data from the crashed system. I could not find any method of mounting drive 2 or 3 as individual drives and the system would not create a volume group without the now non-existant first drive. Once again,

Re: LVM

2010-06-15 Thread Gerald C.Catling
On Tuesday, June 15, 2010 10:25:56 am Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 08:27:32AM +1000, Gerald C.Catling wrote: > > Hi Boyd, > > At what point and how do I insert -P in the lvm system? > > man lvchange > > > Many thanks to all respondents,

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2010-06-14 Thread Gerald C.Catling
Hi Boyd, At what point and how do I insert -P in the lvm system? Many thanks to all respondents, and NO I did not have a backup, no drive big enough to hold all data. Gerald -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

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2010-06-14 Thread Gerald C.Catling
Hi Guy's, I am not a Debian user but I have seen references to LVM here. I have 3 drives LVM'd to give me 1.3TB of storage space on my server. The first drive of this set has died. I was wondering if any of you Guru's could suggest a method of getting any remaing data from the LVM drives, that is