On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 04:59:36PM +0100, Peter Lohmann wrote: > > > > If your metadata backups are up-to-date then "vgchange -ay" should activate the > > volumes regardless. Something must have changed, programs don't just work one > > day and segv the next without good reason. > > I know... but still: > > --> vgchange -ay myvg > vgchange -- volume group "myvg" does not exist > > Same with vgchange -ay > > :-( Looks like the segfaulting vgscan started to write the metadata backups. See of you can find valid ones in /etc/lvmtab and restore them using vgcfgrestore. OR it might be as easy as creating a new /etc/lvmtab with "myvg\0" in it and retrying vgchange. -- 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/