Hello I have the same Problem as Sebastian. I have 3 disks in my LV. The third one has badblocks. The Data isn't nessecary on this disk. So can i release the third disk from the LV, reformat and rebind into it without loosing the data on disk1 and 2?? And what about the reiser? Is it consistent after this "hack"?? disk1 /dev/hdb disk2 /dev/hdc disk3 /dev/hdd <-- the faulty one and the last joined to the LV Can i do it with these commands?? What is different? Whats the meaning of the "0" in storage\0 ?? mkdir /etc/lvmtab.d cp /etc/lvmconf/storage.conf /etc/lvmtab.d/storage echo -ne "storage\0" > /etc/lvmtab vgchange -ay storage Please help... i don't want to lose 240GB! Thanks for help! Samuel <<SNIP>>-------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- Message: 5 Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 11:05:55 +0100 From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" <mauelshagen@sistina.com> To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Subject: Re: One PV destroyed - now the whole VG isn't working anymore Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com 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 -- <<SNAP>>-------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- _______________________________________________ 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/
