hi! i have some problem with lvm, after a crash, my raid controller has gone, and i cant access my vg and lv -s.. now: ~# pvscan pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdm1" is associated to unknown VG "apolloftp" (run vgscan) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdi1" is associated to unknown VG "apolloftp" (run vgscan) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdj1" is associated to unknown VG "apolloftp" (run vgscan) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdg1" is associated to unknown VG "apolloftp" (run vgscan) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdh1" is associated to unknown VG "apolloftp" (run vgscan) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdc1" is associated to unknown VG "apolloftp" (run vgscan) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdd1" is associated to unknown VG "apolloftp" (run vgscan) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hda4" is associated to unknown VG "apolloftp" (run vgscan) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdb1" is associated to unknown VG "apolloftp" (run vgscan) pvscan -- total: 9 [545.98 GB] / in use: 9 [545.98 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0] lvscan: ~# lvscan lvscan -- no volume groups found ~# vgscan vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): current PV" can't get data of volume group "apolloftp" from physical volume(s) vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume group 1, if i cant replace my the raid controloler, then how can i save my datas? 2, if i can replace it, then it will be okay? vgscan and lvscan will work? 3, if the winchesters has gone, then what should i do? :) there was 12 winchester in lvm.. please help NagyZ _______________________________________________ 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/