Yes, I did try this utility. Thanx for your suggestion. Mike Diehl, Network Monitoring Tool Devl. Sandia National Laboratories. (505) 284-3137 jdiehl@sandia.gov > -----Original Message----- > From: AJ Lewis [mailto:lewis@sistina.com] > Sent: September 05, 2001 2:42 PM > To: linux-lvm@sistina.com > Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] My VG is gone... > > > 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------------------------------------------ >
