On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 08:20:16PM -0500, Austin Gonyou wrote: > > I tarred up the /etc/lvm* stuff from one box that has a similar > configuration (two whole disks, /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc, in one vg), and > then put it on my target host and attempted to restore the > configuration. > > Below is the output I get. I guess, all I need to know right now, is are > the first 512 bytes of each disk all that is used for the pv > information, or is it more than that? > > Also, can pvcreate be used without destroying the underlying > filesystems? TIA!!! > > <vgcfgrestore> > [root@localhost root]# vgcfgrestore -n data /dev/sdb > vgcfgrestore -- INFO: using backup file "/etc/lvmconf/data.conf" > vgcfgrestore -- ERROR "pv_read(): PV identifier invalid" reading > physical volume "/dev/sdb" > > [root@localhost root]# vgcfgrestore -n data /dev/sdc > vgcfgrestore -- INFO: using backup file "/etc/lvmconf/data.conf" > vgcfgrestore -- ERROR "pv_read(): PV identifier invalid" reading > physical volume "/dev/sdc" > </vgcfgrestore> > It'll be fine :-) just # pvcreate /dev/sdb # pvcreate /dev/sdc and then issue the vgcfgrestore commands you have above. then vgscan && vgchange -ay -- patrick _______________________________________________ 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/
