vexport-ing the volume in rescue mode and vgimporting-ing after system restart did solve the problem >-----Original Message----- >From: Murthy Kambhampaty >Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 02:44 >To: 'linux-lvm@sistina.com' >Subject: VG incorrectly displayed/unusable > > >After reinstalling Redhat 8.0 on a server system, I am having >an odd problem: vgscan recognizes the various VGs on the >system, VGsys, VGdata0 and VGdb01. However, LVM seems to >confuse VGdata0 and VGsys - "/sbin/vgdisplay VGdata0" produces >a VGdisplay for VGsys and "/sbin/lvscan" shows duplicate >information for VGsys. As shown below, "/sbin/vgdisplay -D >VGdata0" shows the correct information for VGdata0. > >I am thinking of booting to the Redhat 8.0 installer's rescue mode >, vgexport-ing VGdata0, reboot to the system and >"vgimport"-ing VGdata0 (and its PVs). Is this likely to solve >the problem (I half-expect that all that vgexport does is >remove the VG config from the "old" system in preparation for >moving the volume, so I'm not sure this will do me any good.) > >The system runs RedHat Linux 8.0 with the latest updates, and >the 2.4.21 kernel with xfs patches (LVM userspace has been >updated to redhat/contribs/libc6/SRPMS/lvm-1.0.5-1.src.rpm >rebuilt on this system). Hardware is >Supermicro Super8050 >AIC79XX (onboard u160, connects VGsys) >DAC960 (Acceleraid 352, connects VGdata0) >aacraid (Adaptec 2200s, connects VGdb01) > >One thing to note is that one of the PVs in VGdata0 is a whole >(HW RAID-5 logical) disk. > >Listed below are output from: >/sbin/vgdisplay -D VGdata0 >/sbin/vgdisplay VGdata0 >and >/sbin/pvdisplay > >Thanks for the help, > Murthy > > > ># /sbin/vgdisplay -D VGdata0 >--- Volume group --- >VG Name VGdata0 >VG Access read/write >VG Status NOT available/resizable >VG # 0 >MAX LV 256 >Cur LV 3 >Open LV 0 >MAX LV Size 2 TB >Max PV 256 >Cur PV 2 >Act PV 2 >VG Size 266.16 GB >PE Size 32 MB >Total PE 8517 >Alloc PE / Size 5185 / 162.03 GB >Free PE / Size 3332 / 104.12 GB >VG UUID QmFOyx-ILlI-uNTb-z4hG-ZDnD-kL3Q-UyJGEZ > > ># /sbin/vgdisplay VGdata0 >--- Volume group --- >VG Name VGsys >VG Access read/write >VG Status available/resizable >VG # 0 >MAX LV 256 >Cur LV 4 >Open LV 4 >MAX LV Size 255.99 GB >Max PV 256 >Cur PV 1 >Act PV 1 >VG Size 31.65 GB >PE Size 4 MB >Total PE 8103 >Alloc PE / Size 8103 / 31.65 GB >Free PE / Size 0 / 0 >VG UUID DWvjLY-tFNc-cxXU-epjF-vaEx-uEAA-IM3CtK > > ># /sbin/lvscan >pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) >pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/rd/c0d0p4" of VG "VGdata0" [129.38 GB / >104.12 GB free] >pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/rd/c0d1" of VG "VGdata0" [136.78 GB / 0 >free] >pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/md2" of VG "VGsys" [31.65 GB / 0 >free] >pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/sdc1" of VG "VGdb01" [67.75 GB / 0 >free] >pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/sdd1" of VG "VGdb01" [271.12 GB / 0 >free] >pvscan -- total: 5 [636.88 GB] / in use: 5 [636.88 GB] / in no >VG: 0 [0] > _______________________________________________ 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/