On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 10:53:25PM +0200, Erkki Seppala wrote: > The drive I got was two gigabytes smaller than the original, and thus: > > [21:42] lectric(pts/8):~# vgcfgrestore -n archive /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1 > vgcfgrestore -- size of physical volume /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1 differs from backup > > The original disc was: > > PVs: [AN] ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1 60030976 /3664 > 21331968 /1302 38699008/2362 > > and it now is 58633312 blocks according to fdisk. Change your partition to have the very same size as before and vgcfgrestore. > > Is there a way to still restore the remaining VG?-o Sounds like the > backup would need to be modified. The physical extents that were in > the dead device would need to be either removed from the VG or > allocated from another device? > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > / __// /__ ____ __ Erkki Seppälä\ \ > / /_ / // // /\ \/ //ircnet Modeemi Ry\ / > /_/ /_/ \___/ /_/\_\@modeemi.fi http://www.modeemi.fi/~flux/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ 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