I am not subscribed to this list - please CC me back again and to the copy address (home and work). I am in a mess, probably of my own making. I would like to get out of it. In what I describe below, I will use /dev/hda etc although I have devfs installed and really mean the full path to the devices. My main disk /dev/hda has a non-lvm root partition (/dev/hda2) and one lvm partition (/dev/hda3) [/dev/hda1 is a partition with another OS on it :-( ] It was starting to fail so I have purchased another disk and temporarily wired it in as /dev/hdb. I created three partitions on in with /dev/hdb3 as the lvm partition. I successfully copied the first two partitions but with the third, in order to preserve my volume group name (vg1), I did pvcreate /dev/hdb3, vgextend vg1 /dev/hdb3 and pvmove /dev/hda3 so that all the data should now be on /dev/hdb3. I then shut down the machine, removed /dev/hda and moved what was /dev/hdb so it is now /dev/hda. I booted up with my rescue CD and managed to run lilo so /dev/hda2 now boots up as the correct rootfs. Unfortunately when I run vgscan I am getting an error message something like (I don't have the exact message - I am copying the from this lists archives) vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): current PV" can't get data of volume group "vg1" from physical volume(s) I guess, I have left something behind on the old disk. Is there a way out of this so I don't loose the data? I can wire up the old disk again if necessary but I am not sure what I did wrong the first time so I might be just wasting my time. So any help as to what to do would be very welcome. Thanks -- Alan Chandler Alan.Chandler@LogicaCMG.com This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you. _______________________________________________ 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/
