Hi! I'm using LVM 0.9.1_beta7 on SuSE Linux 7.2. I created a second VG (the other VG is detected by vgscan on bootup) with only one PV and added some LV to it. Later I added a second PV to the second VG and i copied the old LV to new LV with stripes=2. All this configuration was made with the lvm tool included in yast from SuSE. During reboot the system finds the first VG, but not the second one, which was detected before, when only one PV was assigned to it. I was using the second VG before reboot with two assigned PV. *** output, which might be of interest: server1:/etc/lvmconf # pvdata /dev/hda2 --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hda2 VG Name ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡ääÌääääääää¡äää¡ääääääääÌääääÌäääÌääääääääääääääääÌäääÌääÌÌæ¸ððð ððððððððððððððððððððððð‘npuspupupupupupupupupspupspspspspsspã¹øùøðããã㨕••‘‘†‹ppppupupupu pupupuspupupupupspspupupupspupspupupunP2?PPPPPnrpppp‚}‚‘†‘‘‘‘•••••••¨ãã¥ññÖñÖñÖñÖñÖññÖñÖ PV Size 923.51 GB / NOT usable 720.86 GB [LVM: 586.02 MB] PV# 4057395697 PV Status available Allocatable NO Cur LV 1886614896 PE Size (KByte) 985249850 Total PE 1936748912 Free PE 50003456 Allocated PE 1886745456 PV UUID ,1HVA7-GVÞÞ-HÞG>-H,HA-GH71-ÞHÞÞ-OIKOKO pvdata -- can't seek to volume group struct physical volume "/dev/hda2" *** hda2 is the partition, i added later to the second vg server1:~ # pvscan /dev/hda2 pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/sda2" of VG "system" [3.84 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/sdb2" of VG "system" [3.91 GB / 2.49 GB free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdc2" is associated to an unknown VG (run vgscan) pvscan -- total: 3 [36.25 GB] / in use: 3 [36.25 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0] server1:/etc/lvmconf # vgscan vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) vgscan -- found active volume group "system" vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume group *** "system" is the first VG, the missing VG was called "data" server1:~ # pvdisplay /dev/hda2 pvdisplay -- no physical volume identifier on "/dev/hda2" server1:~ # vgcfgrestore -v -n data /dev/hda2 vgcfgrestore -- locking logical volume manager vgcfgrestore -- restoring volume group "data" from "/etc/lvmconf/data.conf" vgcfgrestore -- checking existence of "/etc/lvmconf/data.conf" vgcfgrestore -- reading volume group data for "data" from "/etc/lvmconf/data.con f" vgcfgrestore -- reading physical volume data for "data" from "/etc/lvmconf/data. conf" vgcfgrestore -- reading logical volume data for "data" from "/etc/lvmconf/data.c onf" vgcfgrestore -- checking volume group consistency of "data" vgcfgrestore -- checking volume group consistency of "data" vgcfgrestore -- reading physical volume "/dev/hda2" vgcfgrestore -- ERROR "pv_read(): PV identifier invalid" reading physical volume "/dev/hda2" server1:~ # vgcfgrestore -v -ll -n data /dev/hda2 |more vgcfgrestore -- locking logical volume manager vgcfgrestore -- restoring volume group "data" from "/etc/lvmconf/data.conf" vgcfgrestore -- checking existence of "/etc/lvmconf/data.conf" vgcfgrestore -- reading volume group data for "data" from "/etc/lvmconf/data.con f" vgcfgrestore -- reading physical volume data for "data" from "/etc/lvmconf/data. conf" vgcfgrestore -- reading logical volume data for "data" from "/etc/lvmconf/data.c onf" vgcfgrestore -- checking volume group consistency of "data" vgcfgrestore -- checking volume group consistency of "data" --- Volume group --- VG Name data VG Access read/write VG Status NOT available/resizable VG # 1 MAX LV 256 Cur LV 6 Open LV 0 MAX LV Size 255.99 GB Max PV 256 Cur PV 2 Act PV 2 VG Size 56.11 GB PE Size 4 MB Total PE 14364 Alloc PE / Size 12800 / 50 GB Free PE / Size 1564 / 6.11 GB VG UUID k6Out8-Mlm6-2vwt-KgX5-uwKl-3M3V-v732Os --- Logical volume --- *** [...] --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hdc2 VG Name data PV Size 28.5 GB / NOT usable 580 KB [LVM: 149 KB] PV# 1 PV Status available Allocatable yes Cur LV 6 PE Size (KByte) 4096 Total PE 7295 Free PE 895 Allocated PE 6400 PV UUID QC9SlR-9er7-zW6p-MryA-9T2F-MAJN-2g6ClJ --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hda2 VG Name data PV Size 27.62 GB / NOT usable 2.48 MB [LVM: 148 KB] PV# 2 PV Status available Allocatable yes Cur LV 6 PE Size (KByte) 4096 Total PE 7069 Free PE 669 Allocated PE 6400 PV UUID e7sX5R-XnTm-keX6-jShf-tTlw-DUP3-mzp4zW vgcfgrestore -- unlocking logical volume manager *** Is there any way to fix the PV on hda2? I tried a tool called uuid_fixer, but i only got the output "Illegal instruction" back. MfG Michael __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com
