Paul, coud you send me the files created with for d in /dev/sd[b-e]1 do dd if=$d of=$(basename $d).vgda bs=1k count=1k done in private email to mge@sistina.com for further investigation, please? In the meantime stay using LVM 1.0.3 and if you really don't have any LVs in that VG, recreate it from scratch :) With LVM 1.0.3 run: vgchange -an NUsers pvcreate -yff /dev/sd[b-e]1 rm -r /dev/NUsers vgcreate NUsers /dev/sd[b-e]1 Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 10:15:21AM +0100, Paul.Casteels wrote: > Hello, > > I am having trouble using LVM. > > This is my configuration : > #uname -a > Linux natl2.uia.ac.be 2.4.9-21custom #1 SMP Tue Feb 26 15:17:02 CET 2002 > i686 unknown > #cat /proc/lvm/global > LVM driver version LVM 0.9.1_beta7(ish) (20 June 2001) > > Total: 1 VG 4 PVs 0 LVs (0 LVs open) > Global: 4991 bytes malloced IOP version: 10 2:14:27 active > > VG: NUsers [4 PV, 0 LV/0 open] PE Size: 4096 KB > Usage [KB/PE]: 143622144 /35064 total 0 /0 used 143622144 /35064 free > PVs: [AA] sdb1 35905536 /8766 0 /0 35905536 /8766 > [AA] sdc1 35905536 /8766 0 /0 35905536 /8766 > [AA] sdd1 35905536 /8766 0 /0 35905536 /8766 > [AA] sde1 35905536 /8766 0 /0 35905536 /8766 > LVs: none > # vgdisplay --version > vgdisplay > vgdisplay: Logical Volume Manager 1.0.1-rc4 > Heinz Mauelshagen, Sistina Software 03/10/2001 (IOP 10) > > > After I started vgchange -a y, most commands report : > ERROR: VGDA in kernel and lvmtab are NOT consistent; please run vgscan > > If I do this I get : > # vgscan > vgscan > vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) > vgscan -- found active volume group "NUsers" > vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created > vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume > group > > and the error does not go away. > > I tried a more recent (1.0.3) version of the tools, but this has no > effect. > > Best regards and thanks, > > Paul Casteels Paul.Casteels@ua.ac.be Tel: +32.3.8202455 > Fax: +32.3.8202470 > University of Antwerp Dpt.Physics > Universiteitsplein 1 > B-2610 Wilrijk > Belgium > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
