--AqsLC8rIMeq19msA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 16.Aug 2003 - 17:45:56, Andreas Pakulat wrote: > Hi, >=20 > 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: >=20 > 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[/]# >=20 > 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. >=20 > Please say if you need any additional Information, here is pvdisplay=20 > of the problematic PV: >=20 > 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 I now installed a 2.6.0-test2 Kernel and tried to get further using lvm2. From that I know that the VG Metadata differs between the PV on hdc2 and the PV on hda7. I also experimented with the Partial-Option but the LV I need cannot be mounted ;( Is there a way to create the VG-Metadata of one PV from the Data on the other? How? I could create a text-file using vgcfgbackup from lvm2, the interesting thing is that it contains the PV-Data from hdc2, but I think that is the PV with the wrong Information. Anyway I hope someone here can help me soon. Andreas --=20 Verwirrung ist die h=F6chste Form der Kommunikation. -- Dali --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/PtkYuekl0h+nrMIRAhHnAKCiYoWDQpvOIKXjQgM2H5D5/YqZ/gCguW5F OVGqN3XcFuDIsdYZxxfD+xw= =sbOO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA-- _______________________________________________ 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/
