How To Recover LV With Visual LVM
Author : weLees
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The LV had been deleted by mistake? Some stupid program had broken the metadata?
Of course you can restore it with LVM command such as vgcfgrestore, of course you need to gather information of it and verify too.
With Visual LVM, the recover LV work is an easy task.
Let's try to recover a deleted LV.
Here is a Volume Group named AirCraft with 2 Logical Volumes: lv0, F82, Shadow.
Volume Group with 3 Logical Volumes
Let's remove the Logical Volume F82
Logical Volumes F82 was removed
So let's open restore Volume Group dialog and check the backup configuration file, yes it is.
The information of configuration is matched
Do restore
To confirm what we do
The Logical Volume go back!
The Logical Volume F82 is available
Look, it's so easy with Visual LVM to recover lost Logical Volume.