On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, blee2@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
> 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:
> <snip>
>> 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.
...
> If you've overwritten the vgdescriptor area on the partition, which it
> sounds like you may have, you may be SOL.
With a regular partition, if you delete the partition the data's not gone.
So if you create another with the same endpoints, all your data is still
there. Is the same true with VGs?
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