Hi, I'm running SuSe Linux 7 (Server Edition for an S/390) kernel 2.4.7 as an image on an IBM Mainframe. I was provided additional disks (dasd) to configure into LVM. I added these new disks into LVM but I did not create a file system on them. While trying to add other disks from the mainframe into Linux, I accidentally fragged one of the new disks (with no file system) in one of my volume groups which caused all of the volume group to become corrupted and go down. I was able to restore the volume group metadata once and then when I rebooted, I got an error stating that group no longer existed. Is there a step I am missing? This is what I did the first time when it worked: vgcfgrestore -f /etc/lvmconf/oradg.conf -n oradg /dev/dasdg1 vgck oradg vgscan (I can't remember the error it gave back) fsck -t ext2 /dev/oradg/ora01 (Repeated this for the other mounted file systems) mount /dev/oradg/ora01 (Repeated this for the other mounted file systems and I verified the data in there and that I could create/delete data) I rebooted and it stated it could not find oradg in the /etc/lvmtab I checked the lvmtab and it no longer had the entry for this oradg group. I was able to boot up the system without the oradg group and then I proceeded to do the following: vgcfgrestore -f /etc/lvmconf/oradg.conf -n oradg /dev/dasdg1 vgck oradg vgscan (An error reported lvmtab and the kernel do not match) vgchange -a oradg vgscan (An error reported lvmtab and the kernel do not match) I rebooted the image without this group to start fresh and then I did: vgcfgrestore -f /etc/lvmconf/oradg.conf -n oradg /dev/dasdg1 vgck oradg Am I missing a step or doing something incorrectly? Please advise. Diana G. Caballero Systems Administration Consultant DJ Interactive/Factiva.com http://djinteractive.com http://global.factiva.com email: diana.caballero@dowjones.com Phone: 609-520-7882 _______________________________________________ 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
