>>>>> "Turbo" == Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@bayour.com> writes: Turbo> Oki, since I had a LVM with broken loop support, I'll try Turbo> with a spare disk... Turbo> [papadoc.root]# vgcfgrestore -f /etc/lvmconf/vg1.conf -n Turbo> vg1 -o /dev/sdg1 /dev/sdh1 vgcfgrestore -- size of physical Turbo> volume /dev/sdh1 differs from backup ----- s n i p ----- Turbo> I'm not sure exactly how big my previous (now crashed) sdg Turbo> disk was, or how big the sdg1 partition was... Oki, I managed to pvcreate my new sdh1, and then a vgcfgrestore. vgcfgrestore -f /etc/lvmconf/vg1.conf -n vg1 -o /dev/sdg1 /dev/sdh1 This went ok, but 'pvscan -u' is behaving (?) strangly... ----- s n i p ----- [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 -- inactive PV "/dev/sdh1 " with UUID "ZNODti-EFFz-rGID-HYyh-kg7Z-yDCe-LLbXBv" is in no VG [15.55 GB] pvscan -- total: 6 [50.39 GB] / in use: 5 [34.84 GB] / in no VG: 1 [15.55 GB] ----- s n i p ----- Running vgscan (as directed) gives me: ----- s n i p ----- [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 ----- s n i p ----- Ideas how to get my VG up and running again? cryptographic Ft. Bragg NORAD plutonium 747 Legion of Doom Serbian Saddam Hussein munitions Noriega supercomputer colonel fissionable smuggle 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