On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 08:18:10PM +0000, wbh wrote: > Wahey - I got my data back, thankyou! > > > pvcreate -yff /dev/hda[34] > > vgcfgrestore -n YourVGName /dev/hda3 > > vgcfgrestore -n YourVGName /dev/hda4 > > vgscan > > vgchange -ay > > What I did, from .bash_history > rm -rf /etc/lvmtab /etc/lvmtab.d /dev/pvg # I had backed up already. > ~/LVM/1.0.3/tools/vgscan > ~/LVM/1.0.3/pvcreate -yff /dev/hda[34] > vgcfgrestore -n pvg /dev/hda3 > vgcfgrestore -n pvg /dev/hda4 > ~/uuid_fixer/uuid_fixer /dev/hda3 /dev/hda4 > ~/LVM/1.0.3/tools/vgscan > ~/LVM/1.0.3/tools/vgchange -ay > mount -treiserfs /dev/pvg/1 /mnt/dat > > Don't know how much of that was needed... All of that probably. uuid_fixer covers a bug in older vgcfgrestore versions which prevented correct restores of the PV UUID tables to all PVs. > > I had been playing with snapshots recently, but they didn't seem to work > with my ancient (2.4.3) kernel. Could that have been the cause? In case you haven't patched in the newest LVM driver code following the instrcutions in PATCHES/README contained in the LVM distro -> yes. > > Thanks! > Bill > > > _______________________________________________ > 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