On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 05:09:28AM -0500, Ian! D. Allen wrote: > On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 12:44:38AM +0900, Maximo Ramos wrote: > > I used to have an old LVM, like this: > > /dev/hdc1 and /dev/hdd1 > > Now, /dev/hdc1 just died .... is there any chance to recover some of the > > data in the /dev/hdd1 ? > > There's always a chance. What format was the LVM partition? EXT2/3? > You might be able to point fsck at the raw disk partition if you can > find a superblock in it somewhere. > > I think things will be complicated by the fact that offsets in the > partition will expect that hdc1 precedes hdd1. So you might only > be able to fsck hdd1 as part of a larger partition. I can think of two > ways of doing that: > You're assuming, of course, that it was a linear LVM. If he was striping then its all but a lost cause. mh -- Martin Hicks || mort [ at ] bork [ dot ] org || PGP/GnuPG: 0x4C7F2BEE