On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:31:41AM +1000, Gerald C.Catling wrote: > Many thanks to all that responded to try to solve this LVM problem. > I could not recover any data from the crashed system. I could not find any > method of mounting drive 2 or 3 as individual drives and the system would not > create a volume group without the now non-existant first drive. > Once again, many thanks. sorry to hear about the data loss. > I will have to try RAID 1. remember that RAID is no substitute for backups. And, there really is nothing wrong with lvm per se, you just have to be careful of having volumes spanning harddrives. Without redundancy, you can lose the volume. best of luck A
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