LVM Hard Drive Recovery Question

[theMidas]

Ok, Murphy is conspiring against me.. a collegue borrows my XP laptop and destroys it (literally) and a power outtage throws my Fedora system into partition hell all in matter of 72 hours. Problem is that I was backing up everything onto my fedora system so minus what I have on my usb key and a few CDs I am SOL.

Here's where I'm at now: During my install, the system configured a Volume Group which included both my 80GB primary drive and my 40GB secondary drive. The 40 gig drive did not handle the power outtage well and as a result my system failed to boot, I presume because it was not able to confirm the entire volume group. I've since purchased a new drive and reinstalled fedora to get me back on my feet.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to attempt to recover the data off of the old disks? Before I reinstalled fedora, I took a stab at some ext3 recovery tools using XP but nothing could read the logical volume spanning both drives. The only thing I could connect to, XP or Fedora, was the 100MB boot partition.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[theMidas]

Anyone have any recovery utilites/programs work with ext3 paritions? I've used a program from www.runtime.org which is awesome for recovering data off of fat/ntfs drives.. if there's anything remotely similar for Linux I would love to get my hands on it.

Any ideas??

[Afro]

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[ccrvic]

Originally Posted by theMidas

The 40 gig drive did not handle the power outtage well and as a result my system failed to boot, I presume because it was not able to confirm the entire volume group.

You'll need to get a system running so you can use vgscan --partial. man vgscan has the details.

I'd have done this with Knoppix, but you have to add LVM support as detailed onknopper.net.

Originally Posted by theMidas

I've since purchased a new drive and reinstalled fedora to get me back on my feet.

Then you'll have to avoid the name clash between your installations. The easiest way to do this is with a rename of your new installation. man vgrename for details.

Originally Posted by theMidas

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to attempt to recover the data off of the old disks?

fsck is very good - just beware that any changes it makes have a tendency to be permanent. You can find a lot in lost+found, but it's not necessarily in a usable state...

Originally Posted by theMidas

Before I reinstalled fedora, I took a stab at some ext3 recovery tools using XP but nothing could read the logical volume spanning both drives. The only thing I could connect to, XP or Fedora, was the 100MB boot partition.

I would never try to recover a damaged filesystem using a Windows machine. The support just isn't there...

Vic.

[jtmoon07]

originally posted here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...4/#post3546564

Tools for recovering lost files on ext3 partitions: (in order of my recommended use)

1. foremost
2. magicrescue
3. photorec
4. ripper
5. unrm
6. gET iT i sAY-giis
7. e2undel
8. ext3undel

Tools for renaming and sorting recovered files:

1. findup (from the fslint software package)
2. A wiki page of suggestions
3. jhead
4. easytag

-J_Tom_Moon_79

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by jtmoon07

originally posted here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...4/#post3546564

Tools for recovering lost files on ext3 partitions: (in order of my recommended use)

1. foremost
2. magicrescue
3. photorec
4. ripper
5. unrm
6. gET iT i sAY-giis
7. e2undel
8. ext3undel

Tools for renaming and sorting recovered files:

1. findup (from the fslint software package)
2. A wiki page of suggestions
3. jhead
4. easytag

-J_Tom_Moon_79

Welcome to the forum.

This is a very old thread and therefore it has been closed. Fedora evolves at a rapid pace and, as such, most or all of this thread is far less relevant to your problem than at first it might seem. If you still need help, and after searching the forum, please start a new thread.

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