On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 04:08, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote: > > Bradley, > > looks like Norton defrag toasted your physical volume :( Yep. > There might be a slight chance to get it back, if you have an LVM > metadata backup at hand (/etc/lvmconf/vg00.conf) and use vgcfgrestore > to restore it to the physical volume. I tried this and when I tried listing the file, I got the same consistency error message: [defiant /etc/lvmconf]# vgcfgrestore -f /etc/lvmconf/vg00.conf.2.old -l -n vg00 vgcfgrestore -- ERROR "vg_cfgrestore(): pv_check_consistency" restoring volume group "vg00" vg00.conf.2.old should be the one immediately prior to the "incident". When I tried an actual restore, it groused about changing an active volume group, so I guess I'll go single-user and try it again. > But I guess Norton damaged more than just the LVM metadata area which sits > at the beginning of the drive. > You should try restoring the metadata though. Not knowing what Norton has cabbaged, I would be happy if I could just move the active extents from the damaged volume to another one long enough to remobe, rebuild and reactivate it. > Hopefully you've got an actual backup of your logical volumes! I'm using the one prior to the drive getting nortoned. :) -- --Brad ============================================================================ Bradley M. Alexander | storm [at] debian.org Debian Developer, Security Engineer | storm [at] tux.org Debian/GNU Linux Developer | Visit the 99th VFS website at: 99th VFS 'Tuskegee Airmen' | http://99thvfs-ta.org ============================================================================ Key fingerprints: DSA 0x54434E65: 37F6 BCA6 621D 920C E02E E3C8 73B2 C019 5443 4E65 RSA 0xC3BCBA91: 3F 0E 26 C1 90 14 AD 0A C8 9C F0 93 75 A0 01 34 ============================================================================ If guns are outlawed, can we use swords? _______________________________________________ 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/
