Hi You have all the history of your lvm volumes in /etc/lvm/archive|backup search for the missing id in the archive to understand what append ! Does raid synchronization was ended before your have created your new PV or before to reboot. It should not change anything, but just an idea. On 9/4/07, Nick Webb <webbn@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have what I believe to be a pretty basic LVM & RAID setup on my > CentOS 5 machine: > > Raid Partitions: > /dev/sda1,sdb1 > /dev/sda2,sdb2 > /dev/sda3,sdb3 > > During the install I created a RAID 1 volume md0 out of sda1,sdb1 for > the boot partition and then added sda2,sdb2 to a separate RAID 1 > volume as well (md1). I then setup md1 as a LVM physical volume for > volume group 'system'. I left the sda3,sdb3 partitions available for > future use. > > Next I created swap, /, /usr, /var, etc. logical volumes in the system > volume group and continued with this install as normal. Everything > went fine. I was able to use the system, reboot, etc., without > problems. > > I then discovered that I needed more space in my /var volume than was > available in the system volume group. So, I created another RAID > device, /dev/md2 (using sda3,sdb3), and created an LVM physical volume > on top of that. Finally, I extended the system physical volume to > contain this new physical volume and expanded the size of the /var > volume. > > This worked fine, but on reboot I get a ton of errors from LVM saying > that volume with id xxxx-xxxx-xxxx... was not found and the system > automatically reboots. This seems to happen for all volumes, not just > the ones I changed. This error even happens for a separate volume > group (called 'extended') that is on a separate set of disks and was > existing prior to the CentOS 5 install. > > Any idea on some step I missed? I know things are still fine on the > disks, as when I boot with the CentOS DVD with the 'linux rescue' > option all RAID & LVM volumes are available for use. So from this it > seems I need to update some CentOS config file? > > Here are some config files: > http://pastebin.com/m6d5075dc > > Thanks! > Nick > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Alain Spineux aspineux gmail com May the sources be with you _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos