That should have not given you any superblock output if it were the partition for the logical volume /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01
The output would had been more in the order of:
/dev/sde2 is apparently in use by the system, blah, blah
even if it is broken
Question? Are you sure that /dev/sde2 is the partition of the LVM?
Either of those two would output the proper superblocks if available, assuming for sure that /dev/dm-1 maps to the LVM.
What's the output of lsblk if available?
What's the output of pvdisplay?
Last edited by Aia; 05-19-2014 at 11:43 PM..
Reason: asking for pvdisplay
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LEARN ABOUT OSF1
pvck
PVCK(8) System Manager's Manual PVCK(8)NAME
pvck - check physical volume metadata
SYNOPSIS
pvck [-d|--debug] [-h|--help] [-v|--verbose] [--labelsector] PhysicalVolume [PhysicalVolume...]
DESCRIPTION
pvck checks physical volume LVM metadata for consistency.
OPTIONS
See lvm for common options.
--labelsector sector
By default, 4 sectors of PhysicalVolume are scanned for an LVM label, starting at sector 0. This parameter allows you to specify a
different starting sector for the scan and is useful for recovery situations. For example, suppose the partition table is corrupted
or lost on /dev/sda, but you suspect there was an LVM partition at approximately 100 MB. This area of the disk may be scanned by
using the --labelsector parameter with a value of 204800 (100 * 1024 * 1024 / 512 = 204800):
pvck --labelsector 204800 /dev/sda
Note that a script can be used with --labelsector to automate the process of finding LVM labels.
SEE ALSO lvm(8), pvcreate(8), pvscan(8)vgck(8)Sistina Software UK LVM TOOLS 2.02.95(2) (2012-03-06) PVCK(8)