Received: from mx1.redhat.com (ext-mx02.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.110.6]) by int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o7G4k9NA004650 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:46:09 -0400 Received: from smtp-server.rit.edu (sc3app27.rit.edu [129.21.35.56]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o7G4jxrS025754 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:45:59 -0400 Received: from conversion-daemon.smtp-server.rit.edu by smtp-server.rit.edu (PMDF V6.3-x14 #31420) id <0L7800K01AKN56@smtp-server.rit.edu> for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:45:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail-qy0-f179.google.com (mail-qy0-f179.google.com [209.85.216.179]) by smtp-server.rit.edu (PMDF V6.3-x14 #31420) with ESMTP id <0L78003N1AKMYF@smtp-server.rit.edu> for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:45:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: by qyk9 with SMTP id 9so2045679qyk.17 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:45:58 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:45:49 -0400 From: Andrew Ragone Sender: Andrew Ragone Message-id: <0b2501cb3cfd$e7c263e0$b7472ba0$@rit.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Boundary_(ID_Id14YGoQFc9RF1o9QxlFcQ)" Content-language: en-us Subject: [linux-lvm] Partition Recovery in LVM Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: To: linux-lvm@redhat.com This is a multipart message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_Id14YGoQFc9RF1o9QxlFcQ) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I've been searching like crazy to find an answer to this question to no avail: when you restore a backup of LVM does the backup contain partition table information as well? I recently recovered an LVM that had a partition inside of it, but it has since been unable to mount. Most recovery utilities such as TestDisk will only find the LVM so I'm unsure of how to proceed and "recover" the partition. -Andrew --Boundary_(ID_Id14YGoQFc9RF1o9QxlFcQ) Content-type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT

I’ve been searching like crazy to find an answer to this question to no avail: when you restore a backup of LVM does the backup contain partition table information as well?

I recently recovered an LVM that had a partition inside of it, but it has since been unable to mount. Most recovery utilities such as TestDisk will only find the LVM so I’m unsure of how to proceed and “recover” the partition.

-Andrew

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