On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 12:56:10PM -0600, Diehl, Jeffrey wrote: > I will be formating 311Gb of hard drives today. These drives were 40% full. > This is the second time that LVM has bitten me. The first time I tried to > expand a VG, the VG was gone when the machine rebooted. Same thing this > time. AND THERE IS APEARANTLY NO WAY TO RECOVER! It seems that all of the > vg data is recorded in each member pv. So, why isn't there a utility to > recover a vg in this situation? This is very fragile! Did you try the uuid_fixer previously mentioned? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rasmus Wiman > To: linux-lvm@sistina.com > Sent: 9/5/2001 2:04 AM > Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] My VG is gone... > > "Diehl, Jeffrey" <jdiehl@sandia.gov> skrev: > > > Any ideas about how to recover without losing my data. I need to get > > going > > soon, so if I haven't fixed it by late this week, I'm going to > > reformat.... > > And lose several Gb of data. > > I have already reformated my hard disks, alas. I didn't have time to > wait > for a solution. But If someone would have helped me or suppllied code > that > fixed the problem, it could have beed the start of a Doctor LVM project. > I > think there should really be crash recover tools for any file system and > LVM system since they all do crash some times. > > > --------------------- > Rasmus Wiman > SAMI Labs > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html -- AJ Lewis Sistina Software Inc. Voice: 612-638-0500 1313 5th St SE, Suite 111 Fax: 612-638-0500 Minneapolis, MN 55414 E-Mail: lewis@sistina.com http://www.sistina.com Current GPG fingerprint = 60F3 160D C0D5 2C4B 751B 4FF9 6F67 E9BC 44CD DE95 -----Begin Obligatory Humorous Quote---------------------------------------- FATAL ERROR! SYSTEM HALTED! - Press any key to do nothing... -----End Obligatory Humorous Quote------------------------------------------
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