I have (had) 6 PV's in my VG. The last one crashed (the whole disk seems to have broken totaly). It don't seem possible to restore the information (not without spending $$$ to a data recovery company), so how do I get the data stored on the OTHER disks? [papadoc.root]# pvscan -u pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sdb1 " with UUID "ofZCeT-O16H-Df0h-4KoB-xQhm-lc24-67dZvk" of VG "vg1" [5.87 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sdc1 " with UUID "xN0MF7-xKU0-Uk3L-g8Pw-0YfH-fS3V-zgFA66" of VG "vg1" [1004.00 MB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sdd10" with UUID "5V0XNB-gA87-OU66-1iza-cvsz-xQ2q-6DEbyH" of VG "vg1" [2.37 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sde1 " with UUID "Bdm7PX-50Dq-hC6R-yXmv-DDq1-n6Nx-4ohaKK" of VG "vg1" [8.50 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sdf1 " with UUID "QnqfyA-fOTB-J1Pp-4be5-t6QU-bGjS-i2BKf2" of VG "vg1" [17.09 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- total: 5 [34.84 GB] / in use: 5 [34.84 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0] [papadoc.root]# /etc/init.d/lvm start Setting up LVM Volume Groups... vgchange -- ERROR: physical volume "/dev/sdg1" of volume group "vg1" is offline vgchange -- run vgscan [papadoc.root]# 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 [papadoc.root]# pvscan -u pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sdb1 " with UUID "ofZCeT-O16H-Df0h-4KoB-xQhm-lc24-67dZvk" is associated to an unknown VG (run vgscan) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sdc1 " with UUID "xN0MF7-xKU0-Uk3L-g8Pw-0YfH-fS3V-zgFA66" is associated to an unknown VG (run vgscan) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sdd10" with UUID "5V0XNB-gA87-OU66-1iza-cvsz-xQ2q-6DEbyH" is associated to an unknown VG (run vgscan) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sde1 " with UUID "Bdm7PX-50Dq-hC6R-yXmv-DDq1-n6Nx-4ohaKK" is associated to an unknown VG (run vgscan) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sdf1 " with UUID "QnqfyA-fOTB-J1Pp-4be5-t6QU-bGjS-i2BKf2" is associated to an unknown VG (run vgscan) pvscan -- total: 5 [34.84 GB] / in use: 5 [34.84 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0] This was the info the sg1 disk had: PV# PV Name VG Name PV UUID PV Size 6 /dev/sdg1 vg1 7x1CdK-50u6-NAmJ-6bHY-Ho09-U3hC-K7c18w 15.55 GB 0 free World Trade Center FSF spy Nazi terrorist supercomputer cryptographic toluene [Hello to all my fans in domestic surveillance] assassination counter-intelligence Ft. Bragg subway Rule Psix security [See http://www.aclu.org/echelonwatch/index.html for more about this] _______________________________________________ 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
