Rodrigo, somthing must have corrupted your LVM metadata on /dev/hda4. Can't be LVM because there's no mention of any changes to the PV in /dev/hda4. Don't try to change your VGs before we figured out what went wrong! Did you run vgck and what did it tell you about your VGs ? Does pvscan still show _all_ you PVs ? On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 06:01:12PM +0100, Rodrigo de Salazar wrote: > Hi there, I hope someone can help me with this. I had a VG with a single > PV (/dev/hda4), with several LVs in it (including the ones I use as /var, /var/www and > /tmp). I changed /etc/fstab, after resizing and adding a > LV to the other VG I have (on another hdd). Reboot, and I find out that > I had not written fstab correctly, no big deal, just correct it in > single user mode and reboot again. Weird thing comes now: the first VG > (called vg1) has dissapeared. The /dev/vg1 directory and everything > inside have just vanished, vgscan says: > > vgscan -- found inactive volume group "vg1" > > and any attempt to vgchange -a y /dev/vg1 results in: > > vgchange -- ERROR "Bad address" activating volume group "vg1" > > So, is there a way to recover this VG and all the LVs in it, or will I > have to restore the system by another method (I lost /var...)? > Also, is this very unusual, or LVM is just not so stable? > I am running Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.20, and lvm 1.0.4. > Thanks in advance. > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** 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/
