And Debian initscripts are taken care of if you "apt-get install lvmtools" I believe.....I would double check that but I am not *gasp* in Linux right now :) Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erick Calder" <e@arix.com> To: <linux-lvm@sistina.com> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 8:46 PM Subject: RE: [linux-lvm] missing vg after reboot actually that's also true of RedHat 7.0 and 7.1 - e r i c k -----Original Message----- From: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com [mailto:linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com] On Behalf Of IT3 Stuart B. Tener, USNR-R Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 7:38 PM To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Subject: RE: [linux-lvm] missing vg after reboot List members: It might be worth adding to the How-To that no initscript modifications are necessary for Linux Mandrake, as their default rc.sysinit script contains code in it to do the vg initialization on boot up. Very Respectfully, Stuart Blake Tener, IT3, USNR-R, N3GWG Beverly Hills, California VTU 1904G (Volunteer Training Unit) stuart@bh90210.net west coast: (310)-358-0202 P.O. Box 16043, Beverly Hills, CA 90209-2043 east coast: (215)-338-6005 P.O. Box 45859, Philadelphia, PA 19149-5859 Telecopier: (419)-715-6073 fax to email gateway via www.efax.com (it's free!) JOIN THE US NAVY RESERVE, SERVE YOUR COUNTRY, AND BENEFIT FROM IT ALL. Monday, September 10, 2001 7:34 PM -----Original Message----- From: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com [mailto:linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com]On Behalf Of Michael Holschbach Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 8:49 AM To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] missing vg after reboot --- "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 _______________________________________________ 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 ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿåS{±þ[æ(tm)¨¥Sx%SËeS{±þ[æþȬ¶)ÚýÊ&?ÛiÿÿåS ËlþȬ¶)ÚýÊ&þf¢-f§þX¬¶)ߣùbzìÿ-ù«y§m...âÕ0s-ý3s¶m§ÿÿà ÿ²+-Svÿr?¿-ù¿=¨-³øhÂÚÿ?Ù¥ _______________________________________________ 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