[Sussex] LVM and disk failure - how to recover?

Andy Smith andy at lug.org.uk
Tue Jul 24 13:03:02 UTC 2007


Hi Karl,

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 10:54:03PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> The bad news: I've got a volume group of about 800Gb, where one disk has 
> now failed miserably. No mirroring or striping. Just a bunch of disks. 

[...]

> So, where do I go from here?  Ideas are welcome and may be rewarded by 
> beverages (!)

vgreduce to remove the dead LVs then set up linux software RAID?

Cheers,
Andy

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