You need to restore the metadata formerly stored on md10 to a valid device using the LVM vgcfgrestore(8) command. Then you can run vgscan and "vgchange -ay". On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 03:45:29AM +0900, YouMizuki wrote: > I've a LVM one physical volume "vg0" that created on 10 RAID devices. > It worked still the day. > But one day, I have problem about vgscan reports that it can't find my VG. > > My VG structure was this. > > | /dev/md1,md2,md3,md4,md5,md6,md7,md8,md9,md10 => vg0 > > But md10 was broken. > I need to restruct VG like this. > > | /dev/md1,md2,md3,md4,md5,md6,md7,md8,md9 => vg0 > > But vgscan is can't find VG > > |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 > > > I tried uuid_fixer. but I get only error. > > |uuid_fixer /dev/md1 /dev/md2 /dev/md3 /dev/md4 /dev/md5 /dev/md6 /dev/md7 /dev/md8 /dev/md9 > |Error: number of PVs passed in does not match number of PVs in /dev/md2's VG > | 9 PVs were passed in and 10 were expected. > > I tried pvmove... > > |pvmove --force -v /dev/md9 /dev/md10 > |pvmove -- checking name of source physical volume "/dev/md9" > |pvmove -- locking logical volume manager > |pvmove -- reading data of source physical volume from "/dev/md9" > |pvmove -- checking volume group existence > |pvmove -- ERROR: can't move physical extents: volume group vg0 doesn't exist > > How do I carry out the restructuring of it and can I reconstruct it? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
