Which LVM and Linux version is this ? Does everything else irt LVM with the exception of pvmove ru fine (i.e. creating/removing LVs etc.) ? Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:26:44PM +0000, B. Dobalina wrote: > I am trying to remove an old harddrive from one of my volumes using: > pvmove -v /dev/hdh3 > It was chugging along just find until about half way through when it froze. > Linux was not "frozen", but I do not think it would allow any io to the > block devices (logins, ls's, etc would stall). I waited about an hour, at > which point it was still stuck on the same extent, and had no other option > but to hard reboot. When the system was booted, the volume to which hdh3 > belonged, would no longer mount: > > $ vgscan > vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) > vgscan -- found active volume group "vol1" > vgscan -- only found 2523 of 768 LEs for LV /dev/vol2/software (1) > vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): allocated LE of LV" can't get > data of volume group "vol2" from physical volume(s) > vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created > vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume > groups > > > Looks like some lvm metadata has been corrupted. So I ran vgcfgrestore on > /dev/hdh3: same result. Then I ran it on all the PVs in vol2: same result. > Does anybody have a solution to get this volume mounted? There is a bunch of > data on vol2, but not all that much in /dev/hdh3, so a partial restore would > be ok. > > Thanks, > Skip > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/