Alex, you may want to try uuid_fixer which i've send to you in direct mail. Run "uuid_fixer YourPV1 YourPV2" and answer yes to the update question. The run "vgscan; vgchange -ay". Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 04:32:54PM +1100, acpretty@ozemail.com.au wrote: > Hey all, > If someone is around who could help me it would be SO appreciated. > > I have a volume group (vg00) with two physical volumes in it. > > with in about half an hour ..... > I extended one of the logical volumes, no probs > I extended the file system, noprobs > was doing a large-ish transfer to my enlarged fs when the machine crashed... > > upon restarting the machine told me I had inconsistencies in my PV's so I did a vgcfgrestore. Now upon restarting I get no acknowledgement of the volume group at all.... > > SO! I thought I'd try and force a vgimport of the volume group only to find that vgimport says that the two PV's in the VG are not from the same VG. > > now I'm a bit lost, if anyone could help, PLEASE!!!! I have one last thing I think I should try but I'm uncertain. > > When I run pvdata the bit at the bottom says: > > --- List of physical volume UUIDs --- > > 001: EtJbdT-qZBP-P6Bf-yRwi-I4Bn-0qzS-L13XYu > 002: --- EMPTY --- > > shouldn't each PV know about all the other PV's UUID's in this list and therefore can anyone tell me if using the UUID fixer program is the thing to do? > > more importantly can anyone tell me how much of the partitions I need to dd in order to preserve the meta data in case this doesn't help > > Thanks reading this far and thanks in advance to the help > Alex > > This message was sent through MyMail http://www.mymail.com.au > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ *** 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/
