Hello everybody,
I have made a very annoying mistake, which I hope is fixable... I have a notebook, of which i want to replace the harddisk (i currently have too less space). So, while running the f10 i used to have installed on the machine, i had the new harddisk attached as usb-disk. In a try to copy the lvm partition (my / partition), i added a partition to the current logical volume. The idea was to do a "migrate extents" from the "system-config-lvm" program. However, i decided not to do that, and repartitioned the new disk to be able to setup a "mirrored" logical volume. That way i hoped to achieve to keep my old disk intact. However, i forgot (stupid
) to remove the new disk's partitions from the logical volume.
Result -- I can't boot my f10 anymore, since the partition table is not recognised. I have mount problems since it misses physical extents (or whatever it looks for, infact). However, i know absolutely sure that there was no data at all on the new disk. so, I hope to be able to somehow make my system mount again, so i will be able to transfer my system to the new disk.
I'm currently running f10 live, since my system won't boot anymore. I have done a fair bit of googling, but couldn't find anything related. I hope this will be fixable, since I don't really feel like setting the system from the ground up again... I do have data backups, but no disk images (unfortanetely)
Any help is greatly appreciated, i will keep you posted!
Stefan
FWIW, here is the current output of some commands (run from the live disk), sda is the original disk, sdb is the new (repartitioned) harddisk:
[root@localhost liveuser]# vgscan
Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
Couldn't find device with uuid 'f5YKF1-RKci-TnwI-fuqn-7uhV-mkml-rDpgkI'.
Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group VolGroup00.
Couldn't find device with uuid 'f5YKF1-RKci-TnwI-fuqn-7uhV-mkml-rDpgkI'.
Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group VolGroup00.
Volume group "VolGroup00" not found
[root@localhost liveuser]# pvscan -v
Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices
Wiping internal VG cache
Walking through all physical volumes
Couldn't find device with uuid 'f5YKF1-RKci-TnwI-fuqn-7uhV-mkml-rDpgkI'.
Couldn't find device with uuid 'f5YKF1-RKci-TnwI-fuqn-7uhV-mkml-rDpgkI'.
PV /dev/sda5 VG VolGroup00 lvm2 [49.72 GB / 32.00 MB free]
PV unknown device VG VolGroup00 lvm2 [297.88 GB / 297.88 GB free]
Total: 2 [347.59 GB] / in use: 2 [347.59 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ]
[root@localhost liveuser]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa9a1b395
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1529 12281661 27 Unknown
/dev/sda2 1530 8075 52579328 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 8076 8100 200812+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 8101 14593 52155022+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 8101 14593 52154991 8e Linux LVM
Disk /dev/sdb: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa9a1b395
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 26 9586 76798732+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 9587 19147 76798732+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 1 25 200781 83 Linux
/dev/sdb4 19148 28708 76798732+ 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Linear Mode
