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Is there a way to recover data from a drive that was an LVM partition?
I'm a bit new to ubuntu, apologies upfront for gaps in my understanding.
One of our device broke down recently and needed to be RMA.
The device had 2 drives, an internal 30gb drive and a 1 tb ssd. The ...
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LVM restore configured lv to have more blocks then are available in vg
I recently had a 2TB disk go down due to, albeit, stupidity on my part. Let's just say I won't be working with live power anywhere near my server again. However, I don't have another disk that size, ...
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How to mount/recover failed drive?
Today my home server went to kernel panic, something went wrong with its system drive. I swapped the drive, restored the server and now I'm trying to figure out what happened to the old one. It ...
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How do I recover data from a Logical Volume on Linux after deleting it?
Yesterday I was trying to shrink my Ubuntu partition with LUKS encryption to make place for another distribution, but because it was an LVM partition I was just trying random commands from the ...
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Can't restore lost windows partition [duplicate]
I was trying to install Ubuntu budgie, I clicked on erase disk and setup lvm, but I didn't click ok when the confirmation window poped up, I quit the installation. Tried booting back into windows ...
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how can I mount this lvm2 partition?
I have a hard drive from 2012, I would like the data off from it.
I am trying to mount the devices, but I cant figure out the filesystem type.
I have tried lsblk, file -s, and blkid, which havent ...
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Repairing, or mounting an encrypted filesystem
I am trying to save data from a system that used to live on a tiny usb stick, but I suspect a hardware failure. The system came out of a suspend with the root filesystem in read only, and instead of ...
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Remove an LVM partition on top of windows partition
I wanted to install ubuntu in dual boot with windows 10, but I accidentally select the options: "Erase disk and install Ubuntu" + "Use LVM with the new Ubuntu Installation". When the warning popup ...
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Recovering a corrupt LVM partition
I seem to have corrupted my primary LVM partition [1] which contains root and swap partitions.
$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 223.6 GiB, 240057409536 bytes, 468862128 sectors
Units: sectors ...
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Why /home/.ecryptfs is missing inside dd image of LVM partition?
Disk Copy
2 month ago I backed up the 128G HDD of an old laptop with Ubuntu 16.04 on it, using dd:
# sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/media/victor/blackWD/ss9backup.img conv=noerror bs=128k status=progress
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Recovering files from a, potentially broken, LVM2 filesystem
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How can I recover files from a hard disk containing LVM2 partitions after extracting the disk from a dead server?
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My headless email server appliance stopped responding to network ...
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recover lost files after online LVM resize
I did the following 5 days ago which may have triggered the problem.
sudo lvextend -L +20GB /dev/vg1/filme
sudo resize2fs /dev/vg1/filme
Now I realize, that almost all files disappeared. Only the ...
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NTFS partition corrupted for dual boot
I tried to dual-boot Ubuntu with Win8.1 but at installation by mistake selected LVM and then did reboot.
All my partitions now in Ubuntu Live CD shows as single LVM. How can I recover the data of old ...
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Recover the directory structure of a lost LVM Logical volume?
I am aware of the huge amount of data recovery questions on this site, and reading all of them I think my case is unique enough to warrant a new question.
how it came to be
I set up a LVM with ...
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How to reinstall kernels after accidental deletion with a separate boot partition and an encrypted LVM volume?
My installation is a Ubuntu 12.04 64 bits (Classic "legacy" MBR - No EFI/UEFI here) with two partition :
A separate boot partition
An encrypted LUKS volume that contains the system Logical Volumes
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