[ale] Can't find LVM volumes on USB drive
Jim Lynch
ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com
Thu Nov 29 19:22:56 EST 2012
I had a disk starting to develop problems according to SMART. Excessive
bad sectors so I replaced it. To make a long story short, I trashed a
partition on the new disk accidently so I plugged the old one into a
USB/HD jig to try to get some data from it. fdisk -l /dev/sde shows:
/dev/sde1 1 6079 48829536 83 Linux
/dev/sde2 6080 18238 97667167+ 83 Linux
/dev/sde3 18239 60801 341887297+ 8e Linux LVM
If I attempt to mount /dev/sde3 it complains about
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
vgscan doesn't find anything on that drive. It does find a volume group
on /dev/sda however.
I tried an fsck /dev/sde3 and got bunches of errors that looked bad. I
answered no to fixing them. I'm not surprised at this since I'm sure
this device had an lvm volume on it at one time.
Is there any way to recover this? Every time I set a system up with LVM
I run into these kinds of problems. You'd think I'd learn eventually.
Thanks,
Jim.
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