System Recovery

[Labitt, Bruce]

How many physical hard disk drives are part of this system?  
[Labitt, Bruce] Two.  The first drive 80GB has the system on it.
Are there any hardware RAID controllers or such in use?[Labitt, Bruce]
no.

> It appears I can access /data and its contents.

  Appearances can be deceiving.  Have you run fsck against
/dev/lvol1/data yet?  

[Labitt, Bruce] no.  actually there is no data worth anything there.  

(Even that is far from perfect; if something
scrambled just the contents of file data blocks but left the
filesystem metadata structures intact, fsck won't see anything wrong.
But best to start somewhere.)

> How do I figure out what drive has what on it?
> sda, sdb, etc.

  "fdisk -l /dev/sda" will show the partition table on the "sda" disk.
 Run that command as needed for all the disks in the system.
[Labitt, Bruce] I'll try that, once I get thru the 'boot' sequence
again...

sda 80GB: 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9726 cylinders
Device	boot	Start		End	Blocks	Id	System
/dev/sda1	*	1		13	104391	83	Linux
/dev/sda2		14		9726	78019672+	8e
Linux LVM

sdb 300GB: 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36481 cylinders
/dev/sdb1		1		36481	293033601	83
Linux



  "sda" will be the first SCSI, SATA, or other non-IDE device.  The
second would be "sdb", the third "sdc", and so on.  IDE disks are
"hda", "hdb", etc., instead.

  "pvs" and "lvs" will show you the physical and logical volumes LVM
knows about.

[Labitt, Bruce] response for both commands
/var/lock: mkdir failed: Not a directory
Locking type 1 initialization failed.

-- Ben
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