Kurt, send me <mauelshagen@redhat.com> a copy of the bzip2'ed output of "dd if=/dev/hdc2 ibs=1k count=4k" and i'll have a go on your metadata trying to repair it and send it back to you for VG recovery. Cheers, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 12:44:57PM +0100, Kurt Huwig wrote: > Hi! > > I've got the following problem: > > I replaced an old SUSE 7.3, Kernel 2.4.10 (or so) by a current Debian > with 2.4.23. There was an IDE disk: > > /dev/hdc2 65 5005 39688582+ 8e Linux LVM > > There was a volume group called 'ide' containing only this one partition. > > Unfortunately I did the reinstall before reading the LVM manual and so > did not use the export-feature. What I get from 'vgscan -d' is: > > <333> pv_check_volume -- CALLED dev_name: "/dev/hdc2" pv: 804D110 > <4444> pv_check_name -- CALLED with "/dev/hdc2" > <55555> lvm_check_chars -- CALLED with name: "/dev/hdc2" > <55555> lvm_check_chars -- LEAVING with ret: 0 > <4444> pv_check_name -- LEAVING with ret: 0 > <4444> pv_check_new -- CALLED > <4444> pv_check_new -- LEAVING with ret: 0 > <4444> vg_check_name -- CALLED with VG: ide > <55555> lvm_check_chars -- CALLED with name: "ide" > <55555> lvm_check_chars -- LEAVING with ret: 0 > <4444> vg_check_name -- LEAVING with ret: -348 > <333> pv_check_volume -- LEAVING with ret: 0 > <22> pv_read_all_pv -- device /dev/hdc2 NOT used > > but no volume group appears. > > What can I do? > > > Kurt > -- > Kurt Huwig iKu Systemhaus AG http://www.iku-ag.de/ > Vorstand Am Römerkastell 4 Telefon 0681/96751-0 > 66121 Saarbrücken Telefax 0681/96751-66 > GnuPG 1024D/99DD9468 64B1 0C5B 82BC E16E 8940 EB6D 4C32 F908 99DD 9468 *** 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/
