Quoting "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" <mauelshagen@sistina.com>: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 12:01:29PM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > > Quoting Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@bayour.com>: > > > > > [papadoc.root]# vgcfgrestore -f /etc/lvmconf/vg1.conf -n vg1 /dev/loop0 > > > vgcfgrestore -- physical volume "/dev/loop0" doesn't belong to volume group "vg1" > > > > > > [papadoc.root]# vgcfgrestore -f /etc/lvmconf/vg1.conf -n vg1 -o /dev/sdg1 /dev/loop0 > > > vgcfgrestore -- ERROR "pv_read(): pv_create_name_from_kdev_t" reading physical volume "/dev/loop0" > > > > > > [papadoc.root]# pvdisplay -v /dev/loop0 > > > pvdisplay -- getting physical volume size > > > pvdisplay -- ERROR "pv_read(): pv_create_name_from_kdev_t" no VALID physical volume "/dev/loop0" > > > > > > Does anyone have a solution to this? What am I doing wrong? > > Turbo, > > you seem to be using an older LVM version with broken loop support :-( > Found a bug in vgcfgrestore(8) which will likely cause problems with this too. > More to follow... Dang! My LVM version is: 1.0.1-rc4 I'll try the other solution, with a separate harddisk. I borrowed a 18Gb disk to at least hold SOME of the data I and my users are collecting (mail etc) :) smuggle Honduras Iran class struggle Treasury PLO Serbian colonel spy nuclear president FSF assassination Soviet kibo [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
