On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 08:26:21PM +0100, Seri wrote: > Hoping somebody might be able to provide me with some pointers that > may just help me recover a lot of data, a home system with no backups > but a lot of photos, yes I know the admin rule, backup backup backup, > but I ran out of backup space (not a good excuse). not sure about the LVM side of things (fix the raid bit first hopefully). I would guess, that you didn't do a update initrd, thus the mdadm.conf on your initrd is the old one with the 3 disk raid 5 instead of the 4 disk. fix that first, then on reboot append to the kernel boot option init=/bin/bash. This will drop you out of the process before everying thing else happens, you should have root mounted. Check your md's make sure they have come up okay first. as for the lvm you might be lucky if lvm hasn't started because of the error then you might not have lost anything. what does pvs show you ? All advise given with no warranty, if you want to be really safe, buy some more disks and dd the originals over to a new set and work on them........ Alex [snip] > > -- "The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that George Bush may or may not make." - George W. Bush
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