How to break the mirror in LVM

[csreenivas]

/home/root filesystem was deleted and there is no backup but i have mirrors. can anyone of you help us how to break the mirror and how to mount it so that i can use the /home/root file system.

[Geoff Wild]

If it was deleted - then the data on the mirror was as well....

Unless you had performed a lvsplit prior to deletion.

Rgds...Geoff

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Mirroring isn't going to save you. Mirroring simply replicates filesystem changes, including changes in its metadata. Now you know the value of good backups!

Regards!

...JRF...

[Patrick Wallek]

Mirroring saves you from hardware problems.

It does NOT help when files are deleted. That is what backups are for!

[Hoang Chi Cong_1]

Hi

Mirror just protect your data when one of the disk was fail!(Hardware failure).
Not as you think!
When data was deleted and you don't have any backup, you will lost is!

[Vishu]

mirroring is there for disk failure not for such deletion. now understand the importance of having backups.

Vishu

[Andrew Young_2 · Accepted solution]

Hi.

As far as I can see there are two options avialable to you. If you have recovery media you could install that.

Alternatively you could use the installation media to boot with, break out of into a shell, someone here will tell you how to do that, create a /root folder on your root filesystem, edit the /etc/passwd file to change root's home directory to /root and reboot.

Regards

Andrew Y

[Raj D.]

Csreenivas,

Mirroring gives you protection against boot disk failure, here /home/root also deleted from the mirror disk , as it copies the primary disk one to one.

So you have only option to restore from backup. or Ignite tape,

hth,
Raj.

[csreenivas]

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