Thus Larry Brown hast written on Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 01:48:58PM -0400, and, according to prophecy, it shall come to pass that:
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> volume in the group. And perhaps if I had used vgrename VolGroup00
> VolGroup01 from knoppix instead of vgcreate VolGroup01 /dev/sdb2 it
> might not have lost the data. But as you know by now I used vgcreate.
> As far as I can tell it is impossible to access the physical volume in
> that group now.
>
> Am I correct in this assumption? I'd really like to get what was on
> that volume... I have subsequently tried to mount the second disk and
> it says that its volume group is incomplete so the second disk must have
> been added to VolGroup00 in the old VM as well.
Have you tried vgscan and vgimport?
AIX's LVM has some really robust features. I've had to basically shutdown a 24/7 production server to resolve a couple problems, but the VGs remained intact. I think at least some od Linux's LVM is from AIX code.
If you've overwritten the vgdescriptor area on the partition, which it sounds like you may have, you may be SOL.
Can you read the old volume at all using knoppix? I seem to recall that it being trickier to import VGs to knoppix than to my straight debian system.
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