Sorry for the accidental repost :( I will try to get a newer version of LVM installed this week and give you the response from vgck. BTW, is it safe for me to just use the 1.0.1rc4 utils and kernel on a VG created with the 0.9 release? Until then, thanks for your advice. -BAK On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 05:36, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote: > > Ben, > > what does vgck(8) tell you about the health of your LVM on disk metadata? > BTW: it is recommended that you upgrade to LVM 1.0.1 > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 02:12:31PM -0500, Ben wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am running Mandrake 8.1 which installs Linux LVM 0.9. I've read posts > > that mention that 0.9 is "bad for your health." While I'm not totally > > sure why or how, it seems to be the case for me as well. > > > > I installed the OS and ran find with one IDE HD partition dedicated > > (/dev/hda9, one VG on one PV) to LVM and two LV's (/usr and /var). > > Yesterday, I added another partition (/dev/hda7) and added its PEs to > > the VG. I thhen added the newly added PE's to the /usr LV. Everything > > was great. Then I rebooted. Upon reboot, I got: > > [root@cray]# vgscan -v > > vgscan -- removing "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" > > vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) > > vgscan -- scanning for all active volume group(s) first > > vgscan -- found inactive volume group "vg0" > > vgscan -- reading data of volume group "vg0" from physical volume(s) > > vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): allocated LE of LV" can't get > > data of volume group "vg0" from physical volume(s) > > vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): allocated LE of LV" creating > > "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" > > [root@cray]# > > > > I then tried the vgcfgrestore, which ran sucessfully. Now I get vgscan > > reporting no volumes. Found a reference on how to fix this (using dd > > and reading uuids from pv's, then writing them back to the disk). That > > procedure brings me back to the starting point. > > > > It seems the data is there because pvscan reports: > > > > [root@cray]# pvscan > > pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) > > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide0/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7" is > > associated to an unknown VG (run vgscan) > > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide0/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part9" is > > associated to an unknown VG (run vgscan) > > pvscan -- total 2 [12.02 GB] / in use: 2 [12.02 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0] > > [root@cray]# > > > > One more note of interest: My partitions on disk are out of order. > > hda7 occupies cylinders 2848-3736 and hda9 occupies cylinders 2168-2847. > > > > [root@cray]# fdisk /dev/hda > > Command (m for help): p > > > > Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3763 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/hda1 * 1 934 7502323+ b Win95 FAT32 > > /dev/hda2 935 3736 22507065 5 Extended > > /dev/hda5 * 935 1874 7550518+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > > /dev/hda6 1875 2135 2096451 83 Linux > > /dev/hda7 2848 3736 7140861 8e Linux LVM > > /dev/hda8 2136 2167 256977 82 Linux swap > > /dev/hda9 2168 2847 5462037 8e Linux LVM > > > > Partition table entries are not in disk order > > > > > > > > > > So, can anyone help me? Would recreating the VG and adding the PV's to > > it restore access to my data? Or would I just blow it all away in the > > attempt? > > > > Please send responses directly to kf4wbx@hamsnet.net > > > > > > Thanks for any help! > > -Ben K > > kf4wbx@hamsnet.net > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
