Andrew, see my mail (Subject: PV and disk recovery) dated May 27 on this list. On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 07:47:49PM -0400, Andrew Fabian wrote: > I'm having a problem that sounds similar to the one described in http://lists.sistina.com/pipermail/linux-lvm/2003-February/013420.html. I lost one disk out of a four-disk VG. I'm 99% sure the disk was empty at the time. Now I can't get vgscan to recognize the VG. pvscan displays: > > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdg1" is associated to unknown VG "vg" (run vgscan) > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdh1" is associated to unknown VG "vg" (run vgscan) > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdc2" is associated to unknown VG "vg" (run vgscan) > pvscan -- total: 3 [69.92 GB] / in use: 3 [69.92 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0] > > and vgscan displays: > > vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): current PV" can't get data of volume group "vg" from physical volume(s) > > I tried running vgcfgrestore -f /mnt/etc/lvmconf/vg.conf /dev/hdg1 (I'm running knoppix off of a CD at the moment, with my root partition mounted on /mnt) and got the response: > > vgcfgrestore -- this is a backup of volume group "vg" > vgcfgrestore -- physical volume "/dev/hdg1" doesn't belong to volume group "vg" > > Same result for each other disk. Any ideas how to get the three remaining disks up and running? Thanks. > > Andrew Fabian -- 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/
