Hi, Im having some trouble with a crashed disk... The crashed disk seems to hang the whole system when reading from it so I couldn't pvmove/pvremove/resize the fs... I had to take it out... The lvm I was using v1 but I have since upgraded to v2 and upgraded the lvm... This seem to have went fine and I tried to activate it with the partial mode.. without luck... this is the output on all the commands I can think of that can be to any use... What I need is to activate the VG with the rest of the disks and try to restore the data from the disks to new disks... When I do a vgscan I get the "device ???? has been left open." What does that mean? Do I have a chance to rescue my data ? I have no backups of the data on the lvm so I really would like to bring it back... My previous posts can be used as a reference to this problem, yes its still the same problem... but now with the upgraded lvm2... If there is any more info needed ill be more than happy to provide it... thank you Pvscan: Warning: Volume Group lvm is not consistent PV /dev/sda is in exported VG lvm [233.69 GB / 233.69 GB free] PV /dev/hde is in exported VG lvm [93.06 GB / 93.06 GB free] PV /dev/hdd is in exported VG lvm [152.56 GB / 152.56 GB free] PV /dev/hdf is in exported VG lvm [93.06 GB / 93.06 GB free] PV /dev/hdh is in exported VG lvm [152.56 GB / 152.56 GB free] Total: 5 [724.94 GB] / in use: 5 [724.94 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ] Vgscan: Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Inconsistent metadata copies found - updating to use version 3 Found volume group "lvm" using metadata type lvm2 Device '/dev/hdh' has been left open. Device '/dev/sda' has been left open. Device '/dev/hdd' has been left open. Device '/dev/hde' has been left open. Device '/dev/hdf' has been left open. lvchange -P -ay lvm: Partial mode. Incomplete volume groups will be activated read-only. Inconsistent metadata copies found - updating to use version 3 Device '/dev/hdh' has been left open. Device '/dev/sda' has been left open. Device '/dev/hdd' has been left open. Device '/dev/hde' has been left open. Device '/dev/hdf' has been left open. Lvmdiskscan: /dev/sda [ 233.76 GB] LVM physical volume /dev/hde [ 93.16 GB] LVM physical volume /dev/hdi [ 38.29 GB] /dev/hdi1 [ 99.88 MB] /dev/hdi2 [ 37.19 GB] /dev/hdi3 [ 1023.75 MB] /dev/hdb [ 111.76 GB] /dev/hdd [ 152.67 GB] LVM physical volume /dev/hdf [ 93.16 GB] LVM physical volume /dev/hdh [ 152.67 GB] LVM physical volume lvscan: Volume group "lvm" inconsistent Inconsistent metadata copies found - updating to use version 3 Device '/dev/hdh' has been left open. Device '/dev/sda' has been left open. Device '/dev/hdd' has been left open. Device '/dev/hde' has been left open. Device '/dev/hdf' has been left open. _______________________________________________ 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/
