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How to recover lvm ?

  i have a system configured with lvm ,  os partition get corrupted . How to recover the data partition (lvm). i am trying  to mount the disk in diff system  it says invalid  partition .
        Note: the install os is in vmware esx 3.5
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use vgscan and mount the lvm partition manually

eg/
   vgscan
   mount /dev/vgname/lvname /mount-point
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http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/initdisks.html ..

  while  creating lvm  , We followed the  non recommended option in   this  url  ...  will data recovery is possible .
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