Hi, I recently made a copy of an lvm partition to a file, using dd: dd if=/dev/hde5 of=lvm-file bs=... I would now like to mount this file, which contains a single volume group, on a different machine. Here is what I have done so far: 1) create a loopback device for the file # losetup /dev/loop0 lvm-file 2) pvscan, detects the volume group # pvscan pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/loop0" of VG "vg00" [23.45 GB / 3.20 GB free] pvscan -- total: 1 [23.46 GB] / in use: 1 [23.46 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0] 3) Now, when I try to do vgcfgrestore, I get the following error: # vgcfgrestore -n vg00 -f vg00.conf -o /dev/hde5 /dev/loop0 vgcfgrestore -- size of physical volume /dev/loop0 differs from backup I tried passing the -i option to tell it to ignore the size difference, and then it did create the volume group, but all of the logical volumes are unusable---e2fsck cannot find the superblocks on the filesystems. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I might try to get this to work? Any help would be tremendously appreciated. Many thanks, James _______________________________________________ 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/
