On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 02:42:18PM -0700, Matt wrote: > 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.. Which LVM version was it again. Need to check if that bug still exists... Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- > > --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 *** 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://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
