Eamonn, in case "a bit odd" means a HW flaw, you need to vgcfgrestore the LVM metadata back onto a sane device. You can even "vgcfgrestore -i" to a disk with different size, bacause you loose the data on the old flaky disk anyway (assuming it is completely inaccessable) :-( If your friend had all LVs striped onto both PVs, data is lost anyway. Hint: backups are your friends friends. On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 07:43:44PM +0100, Eamonn Hamilton wrote: > > > Hi Folks. > > I'm attempting to recover a VG on a friends system after one of the PVs > started acting a bit odd. The VG appears to say that it has no PVs > associated with it, and a vgscan only finds the second PV on the disk. A > pvdisplay, however, show both physical volumes have what appears to be > the correct information and extents. > > I'm basically wondering how do I get these two physical volumes > associated again, and is there any way to determine how they were put > topgether, i.e. were they striped? Also, is there any way to get the > information off the non-dodgy disk ( it's ext3, btw ). > > Cheers, > > Eamonn > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
