hi, is it somehow possible to update the metadata without doing the according changes to the rest of the disk? Because: I currently have a VG containing 3 PV's. This worked fine, since yesterday. Now for some odd reason vgscan doesn't work: vgscan -- reading data of volume group "data" from physical volume(s) vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): current PV" can't get data of volume group "data" from physical volume(s) looking at the metadata (with pvdata, vgcfgrestore -l ) it looks like that every version of the metadata I have describes a configuration with 4 PV's. I had this config, but several months ago! A few months ago I added a new disk, did a pvmove and removed a old disk. So temporarly there were 4 disks in my VG. One way to fix my problem could be, that i somehow fake a pvmove. so only the metadata is updated. Then I would have a newer version of my metadata that hopefully reflect my real vg. But I also would have to fake the 4th disk to get vgscan working. So is there a metadata editor or something like that? Or do I have to hexedit my disk? Ciao Alex -- Alexander Elbs *** eMail Alexander.Elbs@hadiko.de _______________________________________________ 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
