Hi! I have exported a VG and pluged the HD's into another machine for import them. Unfortunately meantime I have damaged 2 partitions belonging to this VG. (/dev/hdi5 and /dev/hdk5, both 3.69GB) Is it posible to restore data stored on the other partitions? Thanks in advance, Andreas Output of pvscan/vgimport: (It is strange, that /dev/hdk5 does not appear and /dev/hdi5 appears with wrong size.) # pvscan pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/md1" of VG "siel_6" [18.56 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdk6" is in EXPORTED VG "sieltemp" [3.69 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdk7" is in EXPORTED VG "sieltemp" [3.69 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdk8" is in EXPORTED VG "sieltemp" [3.69 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdk9" is in EXPORTED VG "sieltemp" [3.69 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdk10" is in EXPORTED VG "sieltemp" [11.12 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdk11" is in no VG [11.18 GB] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdk12" is in EXPORTED VG "sieltemp" [11.12 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdk13" is in no VG [11.18 GB] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdk14" is in EXPORTED VG "sieltemp" [11.12 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdi5" is in no VG [7.45 GB] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdi6" is in EXPORTED VG "sieltemp" [3.69 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdi7" is in EXPORTED VG "sieltemp" [3.69 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdi8" is in EXPORTED VG "sieltemp" [3.69 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdi9" is in EXPORTED VG "sieltemp" [3.69 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdi10" is in EXPORTED VG "sieltemp" [11.12 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdi11" is in no VG [11.18 GB] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdi12" is in EXPORTED VG "sieltemp" [11.12 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdi13" is in no VG [11.18 GB] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdi14" is in EXPORTED VG "sieltemp" [11.12 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdg5" is in EXPORTED VG "sieltemp" [3.69 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdg6" is in EXPORTED VG "sieltemp" [3.69 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdg7" is in EXPORTED VG "sieltemp" [3.69 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdg8" is in EXPORTED VG "sieltemp" [3.69 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdg9" is in EXPORTED VG "sieltemp" [3.69 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdg10" is in EXPORTED VG "sieltemp" [11.12 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdg11" is in no VG [11.18 GB] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdg12" is in EXPORTED VG "sieltemp" [11.12 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdg13" is in no VG [11.18 GB] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdg14" is in EXPORTED VG "sieltemp" [11.12 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hde5" is in EXPORTED VG "sieltemp" [3.69 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hde6" is in EXPORTED VG "sieltemp" [3.69 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hde7" is in EXPORTED VG "sieltemp" [3.69 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hde8" is in EXPORTED VG "sieltemp" [3.69 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hde9" is in EXPORTED VG "sieltemp" [3.69 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hde10" is in EXPORTED VG "sieltemp" [11.12 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hde11" is in no VG [11.18 GB] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hde12" is in EXPORTED VG "sieltemp" [11.12 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hde13" is in no VG [11.18 GB] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hde14" is in EXPORTED VG "sieltemp" [11.12 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- total: 40 [316.75 GB] / in use: 31 [219.86 GB] / in no VG: 9 [96.89 GB] # vgimport sieltemp /dev/hdk6 /dev/hdk7 /dev/hdk8 /dev/hdk9 /dev/hdk10 /dev/hdk12 /dev/hdk14 /dev/hdi6 /dev/hdi7 /dev/hdi8 /dev/hdi9 /dev/hdi10 /dev/hdi12 /dev/hdi14 /dev/hdg5 /dev/hdg6 /dev/hdg7 /dev/hdg8 /dev/hdg9 /dev/hdg10 /dev/hdg12 /dev/hdg14 /dev/hde5 /dev/hde6 /dev/hde7 /dev/hde8 /dev/hde9 /dev/hde12 /dev/hde14 vgimport -- ERROR: wrong number of physical volumes to import volume group "sieltemp" # vgimport sieltemp /dev/hdk6 /dev/hdk7 /dev/hdk8 /dev/hdk9 /dev/hdk10 /dev/hdk12 /dev/hdk14 /dev/hdi6 /dev/hdi7 /dev/hdi8 /dev/hdi9 /dev/hdi10 /dev/hdi12 /dev/hdi14 /dev/hdg5 /dev/hdg6 /dev/hdg7 /dev/hdg8 /dev/hdg9 /dev/hdg10 /dev/hdg12 /dev/hdg14 /dev/hde5 /dev/hde6 /dev/hde7 /dev/hde8 /dev/hde9 /dev/hde12 /dev/hde14 /dev/hdi5 /dev/hdk5 vgimport -- ERROR: physical volume "/dev/hdi5" doesn't belong to an exported volume group
