On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 12:49:06AM +0200, Raffael Herzog wrote: > Hi, > > After a normal reboot I lost my volumes. I don't know, what > exatly happended, but it looks like there was some problem > with AVFS that caused umount not to work properly. I turned > AVFS off now, but this doesn't get me my LVs back. > > pvdata shows me, that the logical volume structs 125 through > 139 are inconsistent (there are no LVs there), at some later > point, it segfaults. Debug output showed me, that there's > some garbage in these logical volume structs. Hmmm... Sounds like a nasty overwrite but it is hard to tell because you can't remmeber the exact details :( > > My basic idea is to just clear these structs and then use > vgcfgrestore and/or the other recovery tools (which current- > ly all fail with "pv_read(): read") to restore my LVs. > > But how do I clear these structs? Presuming that the metadata backups are intact, you need to "pvcreate -ff" the physical volumes and run vgcfgrestore on each of them. "vgscan ; vgchange -ay" should get you back to business afterwards. > > > TIA, > > Raffi > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** 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/
