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Hi I have a Centos server that crashed, it would no longer boot. I thought it was the disk with the OS that was the problem so I bought a new one and did a fresh install and now the computer is again up and running. But I'm having problems with accessing the old failed disk. I can see it with gnome-disk-utility and it says that the disk is OK but has 8 bad sectors. I can mount the boot

...t partition from it and I can decrypt the main partition. But then I can see no way to mount the main partition. It is a LVM physical volume. > > Any advice? Show us the output of (after decrypt): lsblk -f or directly - try: vgchange -a y mount /dev/mapper/"main partition" /oldfaileddisk -- LF

...But then I can see no way to mount the main partition. It is a LVM physical volume. >> >> Any advice? > > Show us the output of (after decrypt): > > lsblk -f > > or directly - try: > > vgchange -a y > > mount /dev/mapper/"main partition" /oldfaileddisk > > > -- > LF > If you think the disk is going faulty the very first thing to do is to make a copy of it and then work on the copy. If your failed disk is on (as an example) /dev/sdc, the command is: # dd if=/dev/sdc of=/home/dd-copy-of-sdc It will take a long time, and ensure...