On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 11:58:52AM +0200, Kai Iskratsch wrote: > Im Using now kernel 2.4.20 and device-mapper + lvm checked out from cvs > yesterday night. > (Compilation was not that easy, i had to make some changes for > device-mapper It's normally safer to use a packaged release (or checkout against a label corresponding to a release): it's dangerous to assume what's at the head of CVS at any instant is going to work properly. > pv0 { > device = "/dev/hdg1" # Hint only > > pe_count = 29310 # 114.492 Gigabytes > pv1 { > device = "/dev/hdf1" # Hint only > pe_count = 19078 # 74.5234 Gigabytes > logical_volumes { > MP3 { > "pv0", 0 > DATA { > "pv0", 15360 > VIDEO { > segment1 { > "pv0", 20480 > segment2 { > "Missing", 0 > ----------------------------------------------- > first this says that the 120GB disk is my PV0 and the 80 GB is my PV1, > second it says that my 2 working LVs are entirely on the 120 GB Yes, that's what the metadata says. And VIDEO was split between all three disks. > and I only need to add the new PV and replace all the Missing > Segments by one on the new PV? If you want to try to salvage something from VIDEO, yes. Otherwise if you just want to remove VIDEO, use vgreduce --removemissing (but read the man page first: run with --test to check it's going to do what you want it to). Alasdair -- agk@uk.sistina.com _______________________________________________ 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/