[ale] Crashed LVM machine, any ideas

[James P. Kinney III]

Now is a _GOOD_ time to do a full backup!

On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 09:13, Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
> Weird Solution..
> 
> 	Ok, so the client notified me (after this post) that they didn't have a 
> good backup of that machine (apparently, swapping the tapes had become 
> too much, so they just stopped).  So, I started digging into LVM, and 
> trying to find some way to get it back up.  It was only 2 drives, one of 
> which had a 100MB boot partition, 512MB swap, and the remaining of that 
> drive and entirety of the other was the LVM.  I rebooted the machine, 
> and noted that only 1 drive (the slave) was showing up in the BIOS.  I 
> cracked the case (it's always the cable, right), unplugged and 
> re-plugged the IDE and power cables to both drives, crossed my fingers, 
> and booted the box back up.  No luck.  Turned it off, said a little 
> prayer (something like 'please let this thing work cause I'm low on 
> options').  Got sidetracked, and handled a few 'since-u-was' problems 
> (i.e. since-u-was here, I can't print, my pr0n doesn't work, etc.). 
> They shut the office down, so I had to head back the next morning.  Just 
> for grins, I decided to power the machine back up, and it booted!!!  It 
> wanted to do an fsck, so I happily obliged, and let it boot.  After it 
> booted completely, I checked /var/log/messages for any errors (i.e. 
> drive_cmd type errors, etc.), and found nothing.  Got bold, rebooted 
> again (and again), and it just worked.  The box has now been up for 2 
> days, and hasn't hiccup'd at all.
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> 
> Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
> > Ok, so I have a machine that was running RH Linux 9 with LVM that 
> > crashed over the weekend.  Apparently, the power went out, the UPS ran 
> > out of juice, and wasn't set to shut down the Linux box.  Anyway, all it 
> > does now is POST, and then sit there with a cursor blinking in the top 
> > left corner.  I don't know what they called the volumes, and it looks 
> > like /boot was part of the lvm as well.  I'm on google right now 'lernin 
> >  bout lvm', but any helpful nudges in the right direction would be 
> > greatly appreciated.
> > 
> > 
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