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chene
December 15th, 2008, 06:08 PM
greetings,

I'm not sure if this is the best subforum to post this question relating to LVM, please advise a better place to post this question if this is not the right place.

I have a multi-disk LVM system, based on ubuntu 8.0.4, that I used as a file-server and multi-media system. Over the weekend one of the disk is failing, to the point the whole computer became unstable and I was getting error message relating to the ext-3. Once rebooted, one of the HD (the failing one, I assume), was not even recognized by the BIOS. The whole computer wouldn't boot at all.

Is there any way to recover the files on the disks?

I'd be glad to provide more detail of the hardware setup (from memory, I'm currently at work). I simply wish to know if all my files are gone at this point.

Thanks,