undo LVM

[Luis Paulo]

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Michel Racic <michel.racic at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Luis
>
> Yes I know how important backups are and I gave most of my urgent data
> backed up on various places but this 1TB disc is my main backup and My other
> disc crashed...
>
> I'm too pussy to just try that out so I first have to get a new 1TB disc and
> dd (mirror) the disc so I can try this out on the mirror disc...
>
> I don't think that vgreduce will work but i try as soon I have the mirror
> disc
>
> Thx and regards
> Michel
>
> On May 17, 2010 4:52 AM, "Luis Paulo" <luis.barbas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:06 PM, Michel Racic <michel.racic at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Hi Tom
>>
>> Thanks f...
>
> Hi, Michel
>
> So, I would try
>
> $ sudo vgreduce data /dev/sdb1
>
> My only concerns is that sdb1 is the only pv of the volume.
>
> Will not run the pvmove, that may mess your data
>
> Then I'll try to mount it and try to get access the data
>
> If sucess, I'll do a backup. You will not be in this situation if you
> had one. Maybe there's a reason for not to have one.
>
> If it doesn't work or after the backup, I will run the pvremove
>
> (From man pvremove)
> "pvremove wipes the label on a device so that LVM will no longer
> recognise it as a physical volume."
>
> Hope Tom may give his opinion to this too.
> Regards
> Luis

Good thinking :)

see you soon, hope with good news
Luis

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