Gayatri, this looks like a bad snapshot exception table. Install LVM 1.0.6 which is able to drop the bad snapshot. On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 12:16:01PM -0800, Gayatri Prabhu wrote: > Hi, > > I read a few emails on this mailing list with the same > problem. I'm using LVM version 1.0.1-rc4, kernel > 2.4.7, Redhat 7.2. I've been unable to activate a VG > since yesterday. I've been trying to recover data from > the VG using the "pvcreate, vgcfgrestore, vgscan, > vgchange" procedure given as a solution to this > problem. I still get the following error: > vgchange -- ERROR "parameter error" setting up > snapshot copy on write exception table for > "/dev/vgtest/snap.02" > > I've tried using all the old config files for this VG > in /etc/lvmconf, but even the oldest file has the > "messy" snapshot since the snapshot creation was being > done as part of an hourly cron job. > > I would appreciate it if you could let me know whether > there is any other way to still recover the data on > the disk ? Also, is there a later version of LVM in > which this problem has been fixed ? > > Thanks, > Gayatri > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now > http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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/
