[BlueOnyx:13566] Re: Crashed drive

[Gregg K]

I will keep my crashed virtuals as well. When you figure something out, let
the board know, I'm sure it will be something that everyone would want to
know.

The closest I got to mounting the LVM is when I added it to another BO
server, and I could see all the LVM partitions, but because they are both
named VolGroup00 I was not able to mount it, or even try to do a fsck on it.
I tried renaming the volume using the UUID but I still was not able to mount
it.

The BO install CD did give you options for non raid, and no LVM partition.
This time I chose to go the simple route, and not do the LVM.

 

Gregg

 

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[mailto:blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it] On Behalf Of Chuck Tetlow
Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2013 7:32 AM
To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List
Subject: [BlueOnyx:13562] Re: Crashed drive

 

I feel your pain Gregg, 

I had a BX server rebooted back at the beginning of the year.  Same LVM
problem.  Driver doesn't load, LVM partition not available, kernel panic.  I
still have that virtual machine sitting around waiting for me to figure out
enough about LVM to get into it and rescue some data that had not been
backed up yet. 

I think this nonsense with LVM and RAID forced down our throats by the
newest installers is bull.  The installers from Redhat sometimes don't even
give you a option or choice - they just install the way they like.  And we
end up with LVM, RAID, and partitions named "/dev/mapper/pdc_bdjdgijbbcp4"
or some such idiocy! 

I think it should all be optional, not mandatory on the install.  Sure,
there are people who install Linux and don't know better.  But what says LVM
is a better way to install, for those who don't know Linux?  Personally, I
think its worse.  I still can't mount a LVM drive in a different machine (or
by USB adapter) and get to the data.  That's why that virtual is still
around - waiting for me to figure out the LVM..... 


Chuck 



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