Chris, looks like the installation toasted your PVs (writing partition tables to the drives?). Run vgcfgrestore (you've got a backup of /etc/lvmconf/*, right?). Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:49:41PM -0500, Chris Wells wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm still a newbie to LVM but I've followed a FAQ in exporting my VG (I > had to replace a failing system drive - not in the VG). When I replaced > the drive and tried to import the volume group, I get the following > errors: > > vgimport kbvg /dev/hde /dev/hdf > vgimport -- ERROR "pv_check_consistency(): PE size" checking physical > volume consistency of "/dev/hde" > vgimport -- ERROR "pv_check_consistency(): PE size" checking physical > volume consistency of "/dev/hdf" > vgimport -- ERROR: no valid physical volumes found to import volume group > "kbvg" > > When I do a pvscan, I get: > > pvscan > pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hde" is in EXPORTED VG "kbvg" [0 / 0 free] > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdf" is in EXPORTED VG "kbvg" [0 / 0 free] > pvscan -- total: 2 [37.46 MB] / in use: 2 [37.46 MB] / in no VG: 0 [0] > > > I get these errors even when replacing the old drive and trying to import > back. Any ideas on what I can do next or what the problem could be? Or.. > at least, does anyone know of any tools which I can use to retrieve data > from these drives? > > Any help is greatly appreciated! > > -- > Thanks, > Chris Wells > Fusion Hosting & Design > Lexington, KY > chris@fusion-hosting.net > http://www.fusion-hosting.net > Phone: (859) 492-6439 > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Red Hat, Inc. Consulting Development Engineer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@RedHat.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
