Jims, you hit one of the tradeofs of LVM1: binary metadata backup formats. Therefore we have text formated ones in LVM2. "Well, that doesn't help me", I hear you say. So the help story goes: - stay with your 0.9 version - comment out the "if ( pv_get_size ( pv_name, NULL) != vg.pv[index]->pv_size) " which should be starting arround line 321 in vgcfgrestore.c - generate and install the LVM software - retry to vgcfgrestore to hdd1 as you did before - vgscan;vgchange -ay world - upgrade to LVM 1.0.3 is recommended afterwards Please tell me, how that goes. Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 12:59:45AM -0400, Jims wrote: > > 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 *** 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
