Hi! This is not the usual "Diskcrash, I need help to rescue the rest of my data on the other disks" question, I've seen enough of them, going through the archive as far back as January, trying to find a solution to my problem. I installed SuSE 9.0 on my system, on a 4 gig extended partition with ext3. On this system i also have a 760GB LVM (with ext2). Fool as I am, I decided to check out the LVM-tool in YaST/System/LVM. Now, I marked my /dev/hdc1 partition, choose "Edit", did nothing but look at the options, quit the LVM-tool. I booted into my my WinXP partition because I had to use some windows tools, and upon my return I see that the VG is having trouble reading off the PV's. The boot-process goes into an eternal loop, so I reinstall SuSE. After some time fooling around, I run lvmdiskscan. linux:/etc # lvmdiskscan lvmdiskscan -- reading all disks / partitions (this may take a while...) lvmdiskscan -- /dev/hdg1 [ 74.52 GB] Primary LVM partition [0x8E] lvmdiskscan -- /dev/hde1 [ 111.78 GB] Primary LVM partition [0x8E] lvmdiskscan -- /dev/hdf1 [ 111.78 GB] Primary LVM partition [0x8E] lvmdiskscan -- /dev/hdc1 [ 186.29 GB] Primary LVM partition [0x8E] lvmdiskscan -- /dev/hdd1 [ 111.78 GB] Primary LVM partition [0x8E] lvmdiskscan -- /dev/hda1 [ 3.91 GB] Primary [0x07] lvmdiskscan -- /dev/hda2 [ 102.97 GB] Primary [0x07] lvmdiskscan -- /dev/hda3 [ 4.90 GB] Primary Windows98 extended partition [0x0F] lvmdiskscan -- /dev/hda5 [ 494.16 MB] Extended LINUX swap partition [0x82] lvmdiskscan -- /dev/hda6 [ 4.42 GB] Extended LINUX native partition [0x83] lvmdiskscan -- /dev/hdb1 [ 111.78 GB] Primary LVM partition [0x8E] lvmdiskscan -- 7 disks lvmdiskscan -- 0 whole disks lvmdiskscan -- 0 loop devices lvmdiskscan -- 0 multiple devices lvmdiskscan -- 0 network block devices lvmdiskscan -- 11 partitions lvmdiskscan -- 6 LVM physical volume partitions Everything looks good, I run pvscan. linux:/etc # pvscan pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdg1" is associated to unknown VG "planet_core" (run vgscan) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hde1" is associated to unknown VG "planet_core" (run vgscan) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdf1" is associated to unknown VG "planet_core" (run vgscan) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdd" is in no VG [8.01 GB] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdd1" is associated to unknown VG "planet_core" (run vgscan) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdb1" is associated to unknown VG "planet_core" (run vgscan) pvscan -- total: 6 [529.65 GB] / in use: 5 [521.64 GB] / in no VG: 1 [8.01 GB] linux:/etc # pvdata /dev/hdc1 --- Physical Volume --- PV Name /dev/hdc1 VG Name <lots of garbish> PV Size 1.34 TB [2871331970 secs] / NOT usable 1005.06 MB [LVM: 3.01 GB] PV# 3489574780 PV Status available Allocatable NO Cur LV 1368747627 PE Size (KByte) 193992784 <goes on with a lot of data totaly off> <snip> --- List of logical volumes --- pvdata -- can't seek to logical struct #0 on physical volume "/dev/hdc1" pvdata -- can't seek to logical struct #1 on physical volume "/dev/hdc1" pvdata -- can't seek to logical struct #2 on physical volume "/dev/hdc1" <ad nauseum, snip> hmm, I remember making a PV directly on /dev/hdd once, just to see if it was possible, but it was deleted before I created /dev/hdd1 and put a PV on it, why is it still there? But more importantly, where is /dev/hdc1? Is there a way to "activate" /dev/hdc1 as a PV again without ruining the data on it? I suppose all the data is still there, but something has happened too the PVdata (always the optimist :). Sincerly Even Kristoffersen _______________________________________________ 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/
