Chris... I think I love you, that was indeed the problem and your solution solved it. I'd like to thank you both for helping me out, have a good one.. --Matt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christian Limpach" To: <linux-lvm@sistina.com> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 7:48 AM Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Removing an old disk, and some vgexport/import love.. > Quoting Matt <lightning@aci.net>: > > > > > PV Name (#) /dev/hde1 (1) > > > > PV Name (#) /dev/hdg1 (3) > > > > PV Name (#) /dev/hdf1 (4) > > what happened here is that vgreduce doesn't renumber the PVs and if you > export the VG and try to reimport it, vgimport complains because it expects > the PVs to be numbered contiguously. I had this same problem a couple of > weeks ago. I solved it by patching the VGDA on the new disk, renumbering the > PV to get the number of the PV I had removed and then everything was ok again. > > It seems like you'll need to renumber /dev/hdf1 to be PV#2 from being PV#4. > Check with pvdata that the PVs are indeed numbered as above, make a copy of > the first few sectors of /dev/hdf1 and then try the following: > printf "\0002" | dd of=/dev/hdf1 bs=1 count=1 seek=432 conv=notrunc > > -- > Christian Limpach <chris@Pin.LU> > > _______________________________________________ > 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
