Thanks greatly! That worked beautifully. Let this me a lesson to me (again).... backup, backup, backup. On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote: > > Sean, > > I have attached a quick hack perl script to fix your VGDA on > /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part1. > > Please recognize that it *just* solves the very purpose of getting your > VG with the single PV on /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part1 back! > > Save your metadata before you run it by > > dd if=/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part1 bs=1k count=1024 of=vgda.sav > > in order to be able to redi from start in case something goes badly wrong. > > Regards, > Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- > > > On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 04:28:14PM -0500, Sean C. McCord wrote: > > I was attempting to add another PV to my VG 'mccord', and vgextend > > segfaulted in the middle. After I rebooted (the kernel dumped its LVM > > core), there was no volume group found by vgscan. > > > > I have seen similar posts in the archives, but most of them reference a > > bug that was supposedly fixed before LVM 1.0, so this must not be it. > > > > Anyway, pvdisplay on /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part1 says > > everythings's great, and that it is PV #1 of VG mccord. > > > > pvdata says VG mccord has two PVs and that both are active. The other PV, > > though, is completely trashed. pvdata also says that the LV seems to be > > fine. > > > > I have no backup of the vgdata that I can find (they are stored on the > > first PV...), so I can't do what many of the other people did to get their > > VGs back. > > > > Is there any way to change the VG info back to having only one PV, and if > > so, will that get vgscan to find the VG again? If you need the debug > > info, I can provide it. > > > > My system is using LVM 1.0.1-rc4, devfs, Reiserfs, and I have my root file > > system on that VG. > > > > Thanks for any assistance anyone can offer, > > > > Sean C. McCord > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > *** 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