With agk's help, I eventually found that this worked: vgcfgrestore vg-big -M1 -f /etc/lvm/archive/vg-big_00003.vg However, the LV that I deleted that originally caused the problem, /dev/vg-big/slowtemp (~ 10GB), doesn't exist, and yet it's space usage appears to still be used: root@amphibian:~# vgdisplay ... VG Size 212.81 GB PE Size 32.00 MB Total PE 6810 Alloc PE / Size 6704 / 209.50 GB Free PE / Size 106 / 3.31 GB As I was originally trying to free up enough space to vgmove off one of the disks, in order to replace it and then vgmove off another of the disks (IDE madness...), this is still a problem. On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 09:38:21PM +0000, Toad wrote: > Each time I have deleted an LV on LVM2 on 2.6, it has corrupted my > metadata. Last time I did a vgcfgrestore on 2.4 and it worked, however I > have recently been bitten by some sort of incompatibility bug and my LVM > now only works on 2.6 (it might work on a 2.4+devmapper kernel, I'll > look into that). Here is what happens when I try to get my metadata > back: > root@amphibian:/usr/src/linux# vgdisplay -d -v > Finding all volume groups > Finding volume group "vg-big" > invalid lv in extent map > Couldn't fill logical volume maps. > Volume group "vg-big" doesn't exist > root@amphibian:/usr/src/linux# pvscan -d -v > Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices > Wiping internal cache > Walking through all physical volumes > invalid lv in extent map > Couldn't fill logical volume maps. > No matching physical volumes found > root@amphibian:/usr/src/linux# vgcfgrestore -v -d vg-big > PV /dev/hda is a different format (lvm1) > Restore failed. > > That last one is particularly perverse; I was always told that LVM1 and > LVM2 are compatible. Of course later I discovered this not to be the > case; after some operation or other (creating an LV? resizing one?) on > LVM on 2.6, I could no longer access my LVs under 2.4/LVM1. > > Any help? > -- > Matthew J Toseland - toad@amphibian.dyndns.org > Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ > ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -- Matthew J Toseland - toad@amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. _______________________________________________ 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/
