Fair enough, but I would very much like to access the files and determine later what has errors and what doesn't - at the moment, I can only do this with the docu lv and none of the others... You were right, I did manage to get a whole load of lost+found entries using fsck after the mount. The docu entry was on the physical extent though, and seems to be working fine. Anyway I thought I'd upgrade LVM to 1.0.5 from 1.0.1 and refit the disks to the 'old' configuration (4 disks + 1 for backup), to do a pvmove. Now when I do a pvscan, it finds all the disks, but also the disk I did the dd to, as part of the vg. So I de-activated the vg, and tried to reduce the vg /dev/hdb1, hoiwever this is not working: # vgreduce tripserv_vol /dev/hdb1 vgreduce -- ERROR: can't reduce volume group "tripserv_vol" by used physical volume "/dev/hdb1" # pvscan -v pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) pvscan -- walking through all physical volumes found pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdg1" of VG "tripserv_vol" [38.16 GB / 7.93 GB free] pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdh1" of VG "tripserv_vol" [38.16 GB / 8.01 GB free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hde1" of VG "tripserv_vol" [55.91 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdf1" of VG "tripserv_vol" [55.91 GB / 3.37 GB free] pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdb1" of VG "tripserv_vol" [55.91 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- total: 5 [244.08 GB] / in use: 5 [244.08 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0] If i vgchange -a n it will deactivate them all, but then I get: # vgreduce tripserv_vol /dev/hdb1 vgreduce -- ERROR: volume group "tripserv_vol" is not active After I restore the vg to it's 'old' configuration, I want to empty /dev/hdb1 and add it to the volume group. Then doing a pvmove -i /dev/hde1 should move all the data it can find there to the rest of the vg shouldn't it? Thank you for all your help so far, Robin Edgar ----- Original Message ----- From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" <mauelshagen@sistina.com> To: <linux-lvm@sistina.com> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 12:04 PM Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Help! unable to mount lv's - can't see why! > On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 04:42:54PM +0200, Robin Edgar - Tripany wrote: > > Doing the lvdisplay -v shows that pv /dev/hde1 had bits of all of the lv's > > on it (including the docu lv, which I *can* mount). > > Then it is most likely, that all filesystems will have errors. > > Regards, > Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" <mauelshagen@sistina.com> > > To: <linux-lvm@sistina.com> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 3:59 PM > > Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Help! unable to mount lv's - can't see why! > > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 03:56:36PM +0200, Robin Edgar - Tripany wrote: > > > > I've discovered that there is a problem with /all/ the superblocks > > except for those of the /docu lv (see below). It does lead me to another > > question though - only one of the HDs crashed: is it possible that LVM wrote > > all the superblocks on 1 HD?! If so this seems like a pretty serious bug in > <SNIP> > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ 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
