On Dec 30, 2001 18:40 -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > During a different recovery operation, the first sector of one of my PVs was > partially corrupted (it had bootsector data written to it). Some of the > metadata is still intact; in particular, the total/free/allocated statistics > look reasonable, part of the PV UUID is still there, the volume group > configuration is still there, and all of the LE->PE mappings seem to be OK. > > It seems like this situation should be recoverable, but so far I have been > unsuccessful. After backing up the beginning of the partition, I tried > patching it up by hand with little success, then I tried pvcreate -ff and > vgcfgrestore. While pvdisplay seems to show the right data after that, > vgscan still doesn't recognize the volume. > > Attached is the result of "pvdata -a" on the (unmodified) partition. > --- Physical volume --- > PV Name /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 > VG Name D > PV Size 8.43 GB / NOT usable 4.48 MB [LVM: 132.00 KB] > PV# 0 > PV Status NOT available > Allocatable yes > Cur LV 7 > PE Size (KByte) 4096 > Total PE 2158 > Free PE 681 > Allocated PE 1477 > PV UUID EffefH-Zmr5-gMrs-rUEM-… So, what you need to do (approximately) is (bPV = broken PV): # restore the LVM magic at the start of the PV (probably OK, but why not) dd if=/dev/<some other PV> bs=1 count=4 of=<bPV> # restore the UUID (obviously broken) echo -e "EffefHZmr5gMrsrUEM6CkDRRZC1ragTp\0" | dd bs=1 seek=44 count=33 of=<bPV> # restore the VG name (looks to be missing) echo -e "<vgname>\0" | dd bs=1 seek=172 count=<length of vgname + 1> According to the UUID list, this _should_ be PV #2, is that correct? Hard to see if the "system id" is OK, but I'm not sure if it is important. What about the output of "pvdata -PP <bPV>"? I _assume_ that the PV location data is OK, or you wouldn't be getting anything from the PE and LV lists, but it is hard to tell for sure. What would be also useful is the first 40 lines of "od -Ax -tx4 <bPV>". Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
