recovering LVM data

[richarddmorey]

I have a linux box running FC6. The machine has 4 harddrives, all of which I have integrated into one volume using LVM. One of the disks appears to have failed, and now the system won't boot. I don't know what was on that particular drive, but I hope nothing important.

Anyway, is the data on the other drives recoverable? I'm creating liveCD now in hopes of booting with it and peeking at the data on the disks, if I can. How do I go about this?

Should I get another drive, install linux on that drive, and attempt to rebuild the filesystem?

 

[igibson]

Not that there aren't people here to answer your questions you may get a faster response on a fedora or ubuntu forum. honestly i wish i knew enough about linux to give a better answer.

 

[Laputa]

You will have to rebuild the virtual volume before you can recover the data. So you might have to figure out a way to get an image of the failed drive in order to rebuild. You can rebuild with the missing volume, but there might be missing data. Best thing to do at this point is to imaged the working drives first and figure out how to deal with the failed drive and get it readable and image that asap. Then rebuild the virtual volume and pull the data out...