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Re: Lost an LVM group after dist-upgrade. I'm quite lost.



On Friday 10 June 2005 15:34, M. Maas wrote:

> > What does 'fdisk -l /dev/hdb1' say then?

> I get:
> ams-it:/home/mark# fdisk -l /dev/hdb1
>
> Disk /dev/hdb1: 200.0 GB, 200047002624 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24320 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Disk /dev/hdb1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
>
> That does look promising... Can one fix a partition table?

No sorry my bad!!!!

I meant 'fdisk -l /dev/hdb' of course!!!

> Yep, shoudl I try a second time, marking it again and rebooting
> again?

Yes, but make sure you create a LVM partition on /dev/hdb, NOT 
on /dev/hdb1 ;)

> I've never had that problem as well. Although I have other problems:
> turning off services inetd without warning, or overwriting config
> files without any option... But that is besides the point ;-)

A different thread indeed :)

> Hell no! I will not up to the point that I will be sleep-deprived ;-)

That's the spirit mate :P


Good luck,

Ray



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