{"id":2013,"date":"2023-10-22T21:56:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T13:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rm17.xyz\/capsule\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2023-10-22T21:56:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T13:56:25","slug":"houston-we-have-a-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/?p=2013","title":{"rendered":"Houston we have a failure!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was working on my trusty and crusty (15 year old!) desktop Pyg which just got a recent Manjaro reinstall, when suddenly the LVM partitions disappeared. The only clue I had is that the 3 directories that I use to access the logical volumes started throwing Input\/Output error. I rebooted and it went straight to the recovery console (which is not a good place to be). I tried manually mounting the LVM partitions and it gave this error:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/pw\/ADCreHdFtV4Q3lie5bmAxMgpcdVPAMJ0JzU2FoxThUDC6P3YRsLCI28al_4GbD7dQaYopy9Gx6pDk1ucu1RQN1N1qUMn4pAmE32iJFiIv25YR6L3F-NTbpdzFFSVFzCmd-KexbdUz4MiDW4z_CLHduesmx-x=w842-h126-s-no?authuser=0\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was a bit of a shock and no reboot or safe mode can restore the directories. I put it off for the night and took it up again today. I was thinking maybe it was a recent Manjaro system in-place upgrade so I tried booting to the latest Ubuntu livecd (using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ventoy.net\/en\/index.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ventoy.net\/en\/index.html\">Ventoy<\/a>, which is very good for creating a multi-system bootable drive) hoping it will show up my lost LVM partitions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I booted up to the Ubuntu live desktop and I didnt see any LVM mapper entries either.  I see the same 800++GB unallocated space at the tail end of the SSD.  I launched a filesystem check which didn&#8217;t reveal anything and started searching on how to manually input the the LVM sectors in the GPT metadata.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/pw\/ADCreHfsPuiQWauXbf-D-rPM2twMwBW8yk6C3hYvbYO28tlPNBbEZvcKvTG38JA08wl2xMzQyQNLt9fvOKzGRYOj2CwijGFVQ8kIp1wN7eO7zSgPo0M-XvPDpfiDAXjjb9-P_QStUI-sj7MH8DPKIZQcyHEC=w753-h240-s-no?authuser=0\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I searched my Google keep for Pyg&#8217;s partition layout and then it hit me that all I am seeing is the SSD. There is a WD Blue mechanical drive in this machine before I upgraded to SSD and I used that for storage for files before they are backed up to either DVD or BlueRay.  I checked the BIOS of the desktop and it confimred that the HDD is not showing up. Opening up Pyg seems to be my next weekend project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Curiously enough, I am not feeling as much worry on losing the files as I remember the first time that my WD Green drive malfunctioned. Maybe those files in the LVM partitions (warehouse [files], limbo [multimedia] and arena [game files[) are really not worth that much in the grand scheme of things. If I can still recover them then thats fine but if not then&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/pw\/ADCreHeBI88b3-LR61Slwk-Kd96frptr5SD_efjK7SYA9jSFaHHbCWQS3LM9vZWW7b3-C-PPjDVMANXGCI-O9__HqekqrqihCch96jymt3aWdtoI-0F-AeOMZReetJQ0UGpEvNf8YrjV15DVIRW7jlz6bJc6=w460-h211-s-no?authuser=0\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was working on my trusty and crusty (15 year old!) desktop Pyg which just got a recent Manjaro reinstall, when suddenly the LVM partitions disappeared. The only clue I had is that the 3 directories that I use to access the logical volumes started throwing Input\/Output error. I rebooted and it went straight to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[71,139],"class_list":["post-2013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-laboratory","category-technology","tag-home","tag-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}