You can't mount an PV directly (sde3)<br><br>run lvscan and look for the names to use from /dev/mapper :<br><br>[root@scotty bin]# lvscan<br> ACTIVE '/dev/vg_scotty/lv_swap' [9.77 GiB] inherit<br> ACTIVE '/dev/vg_scotty/LogVol01' [104.78 GiB] inherit<br>
[root@scotty bin]# ls /dev/mapper/<br>control vg_scotty-LogVol01 vg_scotty-lv_swap<br><br>You now mount /dev/mapper/vg_scotty-LogVol01 (in my case - user your own name!)<br><br>[root@scotty bin]# mount<br>/dev/mapper/vg_scotty-LogVol01 on / type ext4 (rw)<br>
<br><br>And, yes, scotty is named from Star Trek's Scotty (first system I set up in engineering so, um, yeah.).<br><br>On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Jim Lynch <<a href="mailto:ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com">ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I had a disk starting to develop problems according to SMART. Excessive bad<br>> sectors so I replaced it. To make a long story short, I trashed a partition<br>> on the new disk accidently so I plugged the old one into a USB/HD jig to try<br>
> to get some data from it. fdisk -l /dev/sde shows:<br>><br>> /dev/sde1 1 6079 48829536 83 Linux<br>> /dev/sde2 6080 18238 97667167+ 83 Linux<br>> /dev/sde3 18239 60801 341887297+ 8e Linux LVM<br>
><br>> If I attempt to mount /dev/sde3 it complains about<br>> mount: you must specify the filesystem type<br>><br>> vgscan doesn't find anything on that drive. It does find a volume group on<br>> /dev/sda however.<br>
><br>> I tried an fsck /dev/sde3 and got bunches of errors that looked bad. I<br>> answered no to fixing them. I'm not surprised at this since I'm sure this<br>> device had an lvm volume on it at one time.<br>
><br>><br>> Is there any way to recover this? Every time I set a system up with LVM I<br>> run into these kinds of problems. You'd think I'd learn eventually.<br>><br>> Thanks,<br>> Jim.<br>
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