Quoting "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" <mauelshagen@sistina.com>: > Buy a replacemeent drive (say /dev/sdg1 ;-) and run > > fdisk # to partition it the same way the broken one was > pvcreate /dev/sdg1 > vgcfgrestore -f /etc/lvmconf/vg1.conf -n vg1 /dev/sdg1 > vgscan Oki, since I had a LVM with broken loop support, I'll try with a spare disk... ----- s n i p ----- [papadoc.root]# pvcreate /dev/sdh1 pvcreate -- physical volume "/dev/sdh1" successfully created [papadoc.root]# vgcfgrestore -f /etc/lvmconf/vg1.conf -n vg1 /dev/sdh1 vgcfgrestore -- physical volume "/dev/sdh1" doesn't belong to volume group "vg1" [papadoc.root]# vgcfgrestore -f /etc/lvmconf/vg1.conf -n vg1 -o /dev/sdg1 /dev/sdh1 vgcfgrestore -- size of physical volume /dev/sdh1 differs from backup ----- s n i p ----- I'm not sure exactly how big my previous (now crashed) sdg disk was, or how big the sdg1 partition was... How do I: 1. Find out _exactly_ how big the sdg1 partition was (the only number I have is '15.5Gb')? or 2. Use the existing sdh1 even though the size don't match? > After either of the above aproaches you need to lvreduce/lvremove those > LVs which had extents allocated on the failed drive. > > You can figure out which those are by > > pvdisplay -v /dev/sdg1 ----- s n i p ---- [papadoc.root]# pvdisplay -v /dev/sdh1 pvdisplay -- getting physical volume size pvdisplay -- "/dev/sdh1" is a new physical volume of 2.22 GB ----- s n i p ---- Not nearly the same size as the original sdg1, but.... cracking Saddam Hussein Albanian class struggle smuggle BATF Legion of Doom Cuba ammonium DES 747 767 pits Serbian plutonium [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