dude, can you forward this to scott, i dont have any of his emails in gmail for some strange reason.
shot,

g.
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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
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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.
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