Sander, if you want to redo from scratch, "pvcreate -ff" the disks/partitions you want to use with LVM. Partitions need to have type 0x8E (Linux LVM). Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 10:48:27PM +0100, Sander Alberink wrote: > Heinz, > > Thanks for your reply, but I have some more questions.... > > >can you tell what you mean with > >'...something went horribly wron during install...' ? > > > >Any particular messages which can help analyzing this ? > > > > > Well, actually no real error messages, just a GUI installer that didn't > do what I expected it to do. However, the LVM was hosed already at the > time I realized something was wrong > > >If you don't have any, take your most recent LVM metedata from the archive > >(/etc/lvconf/ ; you've got a backup, right ?), figure out disks used as PVs > >with "vgcfgrestore -ll ..." and run "pvcreate -ff ..." and vgcfgresto > >on all of them. The archive you use shall _not_ include the recently added > >disk. > > > Well, guess what? The LVM used in Mandrake doesn't make a backup copy. > And of course I hadn't executed it myself.... So as such I cannot > restore the exact configuration. Is pvcreate still the way to go then? > Please advice! > > Best regards, > > Sander > > > > >Regards, > >Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- > > > > > >On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 01:14:28AM +0100, Sander Alberink wrote: > > > > > >>Hello all, > >> > >>I write to you with a rather grave problem. I have a small LVM setup at > >>home, consisting of 4 partitions. These were created by the Mandrake 8.2 > >> installation system. After deciding to upgrade the system to Mandrake > >>9.0, I found out that I had another partition lying around which was > >>also prepared for LVM use. I had meant for that disc to use later on in > >> a different scheme for my /usr partition but never got around to do it. > >>However, during installation I decided to add it to the LVM. The idea > >>was that I would extend the FS later (of course, I was not going to > >>involve this LVM setup in the rest of the installation, I would do all > >>that manually.) > >> > >>But as you probably guessed, something went horribly wrong during > >>install time and my LVM setup is properly hosed. I wanted to re-create > >>the setup, but alas: I forgot which was the disk that I added. > >> > >>The name of the LV (there was only 1) was home, the disks involved were > >>/dev/hda1, /dev/hda[4-6]. > >> > >>Output of pvscan: > >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) > >>pvscan -- walking through all physical volumes found > >>pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1" is > >>associated to an unknown VG (run vgscan) > >>pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4" is > >>associated to an unknown VG (run vgscan) > >>pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5" is > >>associated to an unknown VG (run vgscan) > >>pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6" is > >>associated to an unknown VG (run vgscan) > >>pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7" is > >>associated to an unknown VG (run vgscan) > >>pvscan -- total: 5 [1.97 GB] / in use: 5 [1.97 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0] > >> > >>----------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > >>output of vgscan: > >>----------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) > >>vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created > >>vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume > >>group > >> > >>----------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > >>output of pvdisplay /dev/hda1 (this partition belonged to the LV for sure) > >>----------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>pvdisplay -- getting physical volume size > >>--- Physical volume --- > >>PV Name /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 > >>VG Name home > >>PV Size 399.62 MB / NOT usable 3.62 MB [LVM: 121.00 KB] > >>PV# 1 > >>PV Status NOT available > >>Allocatable yes (but full) > >>Cur LV 1 > >>PE Size (KByte) 4096 > >>Total PE 99 > >>Free PE 0 > >>Allocated PE 99 > >>PV UUID NCf9U6-nqVy-zn3K-upFo-S0PB-SFqb-o2ERjs > >>----------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > >>If you need any further information, please let me know! > >>I do hope you can help me with this, since I stand to loose a lot of > >>personal data, of which exists no backup (of course, you guys probably > >>hear this all the time). > >> > >>Best regards, > >> > >>Sander Alberink > >> > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>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/ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. 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