On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 05:50:21PM +0000, B. Dobalina wrote: > Its linux 2.4.19 (with the sgi xfs patch) and lvm 1.0.6. I have two volumes, > the other volume (vol1) is unaffected. All lvm operations seem to be working > on vol1. For vol2 (the one that I executed a pvmove on), I cannot get lvm to > recognize it so I cannot perform any lvm operations. You've got the actual LVM software. Let's try to approach the problem a bit more... Have there been any syslog messages spotting some light on this ? Are you still able to use vol2's content ? Before changing anything, don't forget to keep recent backups! Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- > > -skip > > > > > 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/
