I unfortunately and not a wiz kid on LVM… you can see from my tutorial that my info on it is limited. I believe I referred to it as “LVM or something…”. Regardless, I don’t have a system here to tinker with anymore. For others who may know, are you getting anything from the vgscan output?
You may want to look through the links that I included credits for near the beginning of my initial post. There is a lot more detailed information about the partition tables and structure in that link that may be of help to you. I simply parsed out a step by step method that worked for me.
Also, did you attempt it more than once? My system froze up during the file copy when I was transferring the data off the drives. It had been copying for a couple days if memory serves and got hung up at some point. My luck was good that day since the copy crapped out after all of my necessary data had been copied over. When I rebooted and tried the same sequence, it no longer worked. I am not sure if it did something to the drive formatting but I got to the same point and was getting no result from the vgscan. I gave up and considered myself lucky for getting the data I needed off the drives.
Keep us posted. Good luck!
