I'm new at this list and new with linux lvm. The story this far. I bought a new hard disk to my file server at home and decided to reinstall the thing with a newer version of Linux (Red Hat 6.2 before, now Mandrake 9.2). I decided to go with LVM and reiserfs, during the setup of Mandrake 9.2. On the server I have two sets of disks. Three 4.6 Gb SCSI disks that I joined together using LVM and three larger IDE disks that I also joined together. Everything went well and I started to copy back the files that I earlier copied to my Window and Linux desktop computers. No problems with that and since it got late a set the computers to move the files back and went to bed. The next morning when I checked the damn thing it had rebooted and reiserfs said that it couldn't find a file system on the IDE set. Now, after carefully examined the situation I think that it might have something to do with LVM. It seems like one disk is missing from the vg. This is the things I've done (from notes on paper, so it's not the real output from the screen): > fdisk /dev/hda Device boot start end blocks id system /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 03 Linux /dev/hda2 14 2482 19832242 5 Extended /dev/hda3 14 2482 19832211 8e Linux lvm > fdisk /dev/hdb Device boot start end blocks id system /dev/hdb1 * 1 5005 40202631 8e Linux lvm > fdisk /dev/hdc Device boot start end blocks id system /dev/hdc1 * 1 19929 160079661 8e Linux lvm > vgscan vgscan -- found active volume group "SystemVolume" vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv() : current PV" can't get data of volume group "DataVolume" from physical volume(s) ... > pvscan -- active PV "/dev/scsi//host0/bus0/target8/lun0/part1" of VG "SystemVolume" [4.22 GB/0 free] -- active PV "/dev/scsi//host0/bus0/target9/lun0/part1" of VG "SystemVolume" [4.22 GB/0 free] -- active PV "/dev/scsi//host0/bus0/target10/lun0/part1" of VG "SystemVolume" [4.22 GB/0 free] -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5" is associated to unknown VG "DataVolume" (run vgscan) -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1" is associated to unknown VG "DataVolume" (run vgscan) -- total : 5 [70.01 GB] / in use : 5 [70.01 GB] / in no VG : 0 [0] And, as I told you, this is my first try with linux lvm. Not sure what to do now and I rather try to find some answers before I make a mess on my own. I would like to save the files from the system if possible, but it's nothing that I can't replace (what I can't replace I have on tapes also). Any suggestions how to solve this situation? Thank's for reading. /Roger E _______________________________________________ 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/
