dude, can you forward this to scott, i dont have any of his emails in gmail for some strange reason. shot, g. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Christo Smith (C) <SmithC@telkom.co.za> Date: Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 8:52 AM Subject: RE: recover lvm To: Graeme Crawford <graeme.crawford@gmail.com> Hi Grame, Please send this to Scott Christo Smith Telkom - ISP Tel: 012 680 7001 Fax: 088 012 324 5693 (please use the fine option) eMail:* **smithc@telkom.co.za* TelkomInternet technical support center 10215 or support@telkomsa.net TelkomInternet commercial - iDirect 10215 CyberTrade support center 0800578578 ------------------------------ *From:* Graeme Crawford [mailto:graeme.crawford@gmail.com] *Sent:* 20 October 2008 06:46 PM *To:* Francois Pieterse (F); erick@staff.telkomsa.net; Christo Smith (C) *Subject:* recover lvm Hi, dd if=/dev/null of=/block/device bs=512 count=1, then run restore, then rescan your luns that should sort you out, first test this though ie: pv, vg,lv with data then parted the disk, then try recover, we did this not to long ago at a client and it sorted their issue out. lemme know if your try it. g. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This e-mail is subject to the Telkom SA electronic communication legal notice, available at : http://www.telkom.co.za/TelkomEMailLegalNotice.PDF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~