On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Patrick Caulfield wrote: > Other than fdisk and parted I don't know of any other way of doing it. and parted > works in MB/GB rather than cylinders so I doubt you'd get the control you need > here. > > Don't worry about the partition numbers being the same, LVM doesn't care what the > partitions are called, as long as it can find the PV metadata (which contains a > UUID)and a complete PV somewhere it should be able to activate the VG. LVM is > designed to cope with things like SCSI devices which rename themselves if you move > them around of the SCSI chain so IDE partitions that do the same will be no > problem. It complained that /de/hde8 was not part of the volumegroup, so I just made sure the partition numbers were correct. Anyway, I still get the "vgcfgrestore -- size of physical volume /dev/hde6 differs from backup" [from vgcfgrestore -n lvm1 /dev/hde6]. So, heres a few details - see if ou can see the problem. vgcfgrestore -n lvm1 -ll : [cut lv & pv details] --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hde6 VG Name lvm1 PV Size 2.96 GB [6204177 secs] / NOT usable 4.19 MB [LVM: 130 KB] PV# 1 PV Status available Allocatable yes (but full) Cur LV 1 PE Size (KByte) 4096 Total PE 756 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 756 PV UUID 9F9nNV-cQS2-BSl6-Ex72-NV1J-9J2v-2wE04a now, 4096*1024*756 = 3170893824 fdisk -l /dev/hde: Disk /dev/hde: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 116336 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hde1 1 62415 31457128+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hde2 62416 83221 10486224 83 Linux /dev/hde3 83222 116336 16689960 5 Extended /dev/hde5 83222 85302 1048792+ 83 Linux /dev/hde6 104039 110182 3096576 8e Linux LVM /dev/hde7 110183 116336 3101584+ 8e Linux LVM here we have 3096576*1024 = 3170893824 or (10182 - 104039 + 1)*1008*512 = 3170893824 [note that this includes both the end and start cylinder, hence the +1] so, it looks to be the correct size, as far as I can see. Any more ideas? (btw, thanks - you've been really helpful so far) Note that /dev/hde7 works fine with those cylinder numbers, so if anything is incorrect its the value of 104039. Matt _______________________________________________ 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
