Hi, yesterday I lost my / partition due to hardware problem. Now to reinstall the system I had to reduce the size of my VG, i did that using the KNOPPIX CD and first all went Ok. But during the Removal of one LV one harddisk "crashed", had several read errors. I could fix this, as It was due to a broken connection to the drive. But now the PV that was on that drive is inconsisten: root@tty2[/]# vgscan vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) vgscan -- found inactive volume group "vgmatrix" vgscan -- ERROR "pv_check_consistency_all_pv(): PE" volume group "vgmatrix" is inconsistent vgscan -- ERROR: unable to do a backup of volume group "vgmatrix" vgscan -- ERROR "lvm_tab_vg_remove(): unlink" removing volume group "vgmatrix" from "/etc/lvmtab" vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume group root@tty2[/]# If i do a pvcreate -ff /dev/hdc2 the inconsistency is gone, but also the metadata and as my / is also gone, I have no backup of the Metadata. So the Question is, can I somehow repair the PV Metadata or am I lost? It is also hard for me at the moment to get a Kernel with device-mapper support, so using LVM2 is only the last option for me. Please say if you need any additional Information, here is pvdisplay of the problematic PV: root@tty2[/]# pvdisplay -v /dev/hdc2 --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hdc2 VG Name vgmatrix PV Size 5.84 GB [12241530 secs] / NOT usable 4.19 MB [LVM: 133 KB] PV# 2 PV Status available Allocatable NO Cur LV 2 PE Size (KByte) 4096 Total PE 1493 Free PE 444 Allocated PE 1049 PV UUID v7FOLU-uCS4-ZD8R-2z6S-GIKR-RCbf-RI2Nax Andreas -- Wie man sein Kind nicht nennen sollte: Harry Bo _______________________________________________ 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/
