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#1 2008-02-10 14:40:21

herman82
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From: Sweden
Registered: 2007-03-17
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[SOLVED] Where is lvm information stored? and other lvm qustions...

I have set up lvm partitions on my notebook, and I am a little worried I might delete them by mistake, or in other ways corrupt my data… so I have som questions:

* Where is lvm information stored?

* As long as I don't format my lvm volume group partition (now on /dev/sda3), can I restore the logical volumes on it?

* If I merge several physical drives in one volume group and then (for some stupid reason) start my computer without one of them, dose it corrupt the data?

Thank you for your help!

Last edited by herman82 (2008-02-12 16:56:07)

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#2 2008-02-10 16:49:37

vogt
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Re: [SOLVED] Where is lvm information stored? and other lvm qustions...

1. see here

2. see number 1: unless you have otherwise increased the size of other logical volumes and overwritten the empty space in the volume group, it should be possible.

3. yes, but only the data on the missing disks: check the vgreduce manpage for how to recover from that.

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#3 2008-02-12 17:00:10

herman82
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From: Sweden
Registered: 2007-03-17
Posts: 16

Re: [SOLVED] Where is lvm information stored? and other lvm qustions...

vogt wrote:

1. see here

2. see number 1: unless you have otherwise increased the size of other logical volumes and overwritten the empty space in the volume group, it should be possible.

3. yes, but only the data on the missing disks: check the vgreduce manpage for how to recover from that.

thank you for the information! meddling with my partitions is probably the thing that gets me the most sleeples nights...

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