* Heinz J . Mauelshagen <mauelshagen@sistina.com> [011011 16:30]: > > Ulrich, > > please use LVM 1.0.1 rc4. > Hey, ok. I did. I use 2.4.12 with xfs and LVM 1.0.1 rc4 now, but itīs still not working. I did: home:/home/fzzgrr# pvscan pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdd1" of VG "vg01" [9.44 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hda2" of VG "vg01" [19.10 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdb1" of VG "vg01" [7.87 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sdb1" of VG "vg01" [8.51 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sdc1" of VG "vg01" [4.23 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- total: 5 [49.17 GB] / in use: 5 [49.17 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0] I did a home:/home/fzzgrr# vgcfgrestore -f /etc/lvmconf/vg01.conf -n vg01 /dev/hdd1 on every partition displayed with pvscan (all I used for vg01). I got: home:/home/fzzgrr# vgcfgrestore -f /etc/lvmconf/vg01.conf -n vg01 /dev/hdd1 vgcfgrestore -- VGDA for "vg01" successfully restored to physical volume "/dev/hdd1" vgcfgrestore -- you may not have an actual backup of restored volume group "vg01" Then: home:/home/fzzgrr# vgscan vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume group home:/home/fzzgrr# vgchange -a y vgchange -- no volume groups found So I tryed to make an actual backup using home:/home/fzzgrr# vgcfgbackup -v vg01 vgcfgbackup -- using volume group(s) on command line vgcfgbackup -- locking logical volume manager vgcfgbackup -- checking volume group name "vg01" vgcfgbackup -- checking existence of volume group "vg01" vgcfgbackup -- ERROR: volume group "vg01" has an invalid number of physical volumes vgcfgbackup -- ERROR "vg_cfgbackup(): vg_check_exist" backing up volume group vg01 I donīt know how to continue, because I always used this number of physical volumes for vg01. The backup "vg01.conf" was created after my last mounting in August. Uli -- 'The box said, 'Requires Windows 95 or better', so i installed Linux - TKK 5
