recover data after pvcreate

[greenpiece]

Hi,

i know this may sound like a stupid question:

Is there any way i can recover data from a disk after i've do a pvcreate on it.

[Borislav Perkov]

Hi,
You already know the answer.
There is no way from that disk to recover data.

Regards,
Borislav

[Shaikh Imran]

Hi,
Please if you could be more specific.
1)Do you really want to get the data from the disk after pvcreate ?
OR
2)Want to know whether anyone else can recover the data after you do pvcreate the disk ?

If No.2 is your choice then refer this thread.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=716493758+1090999352268+28353475&threadId=630558

Regards,

[greenpiece]

Hi,

i want to recover the data from the disk. meaning, 1st option.

[Shaikh Imran]

Hi,
Then as said by Borislav Perkov, it's very very difficult and there maybe someways but i am not aware of as of now.

Regards,

[greenpiece]

Hi,

Thanks to all who have replied.

[Dietmar Konermann]

The pvcreate(1M) command only writes to the very beginning of the disk... the PVRA. If you only performed vgcreate and if the disk was part of a VG before, then you potentially have a valid vgcfgbackup under /etc/lvmconf. In most cases you can restore the overwritten part easily using vgcfgrestore.

Best regards...
Dietmar.