--- "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" <mauelshagen@sistina.com> wrote: > > Michael, > > the pvdata output below exposes a completely messy PV structure, > which makes me think of 2 possible reasons: > > a. /dev/hda2 is not the device you used to create a physical volume > > b. something accidentially overwrote /dev/hda2 after the PV creation > > > If b is true you might still have an actual VGDA backup in > /etc/lvmconf/ which > you can use to vgcfgrestore(8) it to /dev/hda2 presumed that > /dev/hda2 is > the right device. > I already tried vgcfgrestore. All available backup files lead to the same result: > > 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" > > My idea was to reset the values of /dev/hda2 according to the following settings: > > server1:~ # vgcfgrestore -v -ll -n data /dev/hda2 ... > > --- 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 > > These values seem plausible for me. Can i use them to manually edit the PV /dev/hda2 to rescue some data? MfG Michael __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com
