One of the drives in my volume group "world" has died. I'd like to restore as much as possible, but am expecting to lose some data regardless since the disk is PV#3 out of 7 in total. What I'm trying to do is use vgcfgrestore (ver .9.1 beta) to at least build up a new PV in the following manner: vgcfgrestore -n world -o /dev/sdd1 -n /dev/hdd1 This comes back with errors about the size being different - vgcfgrestore -- size of physical volume "/dev/hdd1" differs from backup This version doesn't have the -i (ignore size) ability. If I attempt the same with the new 1.0.3 binary, it complains of the old /etc/lvmconf/world.conf being incompatible - vgcfgrestore -- INFO: using backup file "/etc/lvmconf/world.conf" vgcfgrestore -- ERROR: different structure size stored in "/etc/lvmconf/world.conf" than expected in file vg_cfgrestore.c [line 139] vgcfgrestore -- ERROR "vg_cfgrestore(): read" restoring volume group "world" probably because the file was created using an old ver. How do I go about creating the exact same size of the old PV? Vgcfgrestore -n world -ll reports that it was 4.25gb. I tried creating different file sizes in fdisk based on this, and then pvcreate, but no go. Can I recreate the old restore file to be compatible with the new version? Running kernel 2.2.18 patched up with 1.0.3. Up a creek. Please assist! If you could CC my personal mail as well, I'd be most appreciative. Jims _______________________________________________ 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
