Sebastian, you either want to use LVM2/device-mapper and try the "vgchange -P ..." option to activate partially available VGs -or- a quick hack to get LVM1 going: mkdir /etc/lvmtab.d cp /etc/lvmconf/storage.conf /etc/lvmtab.d/storage echo -ne "storage\0" > /etc/lvmtab vgchange -ay storage If you have those contents in /etc/lvmtab and /etc/lvmtab.d/storage restored anyway, "vgchange -ay storage" is all you need to do. Either way presumes, that enough logical extends are accessable fine. Backup your data and recreate the VG afterwards. Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 02:25:38PM +0100, Sebastian Beneke wrote: > Hi there, > > i've got a really big problem. My VG "storage" consists of two PVs: > /dev/hdc (120GB full) and /dev/hde (160GB, 40 GB free). Now /dev/hde > was destroyed by"dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/diskname bs=1k count=1" > > I did these steps until now: > > 1.) copy back my old files: /etc/lvmconf/ /etc/lvmtab > /etc/lvmtab.d/ > > 2.) take a new hdd (same type and size as my old /dev/hde) > > 3.) pvcreate /dev/hde > > 4.) vgcfgrestore -f /etc/lvmconf/storage.conf -n storage /dev/hde > > ===> This gave me following error: vgcfgrestore -- ERROR > "vg_cfgrestore(): pv_check_consistency" restoring volume group > "storage" > > So just replacing the old disk doesn't work for me. I gave it up. But > there are still 120GB of data on /dev/hdc, is there any way I can > rescue this data? It hurts enough to lose 100GB, but I couldn't take > it to lose another 120GB! > > I hope anybody can help me out here! > > > Best Regards > Sebastian > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ *** 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/
