hi following is the log of the commands.... i want to remove the volume group completely.... or i want to restore it.... how do i do it vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) vgscan -- found active volume group "helena_vg" vgscan -- ERROR "lv_read_all_lv(): number of LV" can't get data of volume group) vgscan -- found active volume group "volg" vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume groups vgremove -- ERROR: can't remove active volume group "helena_vg" vgcfgrestore -- locking logical volume manager vgcfgrestore -- restoring volume group "helena_vg" from "/etc/lvmconf/helena_vg.conf" vgcfgrestore -- checking existence of "/etc/lvmconf/helena_vg.conf" vgcfgrestore -- "/etc/lvmconf/helena_vg.conf" doesn't exist vgcfgrestore -- a backup for volume group helena_vg is not available pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hda3" is associated to an unknown VG (run vgscan) pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdb1" of VG "volg" [31.48 GB / 31.48 GB free] pvscan -- total: 2 [39.08 GB] / in use: 2 [39.08 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0] pvchange -- locking logical volume manager pvchange -- reading physical volume data /dev/hda3 from disk pvchange -- checking physical volume "/dev/hda3" consistency pvchange -- finding volume group of physical volume "/dev/hda3" pvchange -- unable to find volume group of "/dev/hda3" (VG not active?) pvchange -- unlocking logical volume manager pvchange -- 0 physical volumes changed / 0 physical volumes already o.k. _______________________________________________ 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/
