Re: XFS - hard drive dying

[Iustin Pop <iusty@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 12:42:26PM -0400, A JM wrote:
> Yes, I think what happened was that I dd'd to the wrong drive by accident 
> since I was using Knoppix. /dev/hda wouldn't boot and that was all she 
> wrote! That was the reason for the reinstall.
> 
> I can run dd again on /dev/hdb1 as last night I ran xfs_repair on /dev/hdb1 
> to see what would happen and it made some changes so that's robably why 
> there isn't any VG information?
Well I don't know - but at least /dev/hda4 should be ok.
> 
> It won't be worth the time though if you don't think it's possible to fix 
> the VG if /dev/hd4, the initial part of the VG is missing and that I 
> wouldn't be able to recreate it anyway.
Well, sorry to say but if you are missing /dev/hda4 (the other part of
the VG) then...

Hope you have backups!

Best regards,
Iustin Pop