Hello, My problem is the following : If use lvm on my laptop for ages. By lack of space I decided to add a pv to the vg, and extend the lv /. It seems that diskdrake uses a pvcreate to add the pv in the vg. After I made a lvextend on the lv mounted as / of 500Mb and a rizerfsresize. This was working fine. The problem occured after reboot. I did not run lilo to recreate the Master boot sector and may be it is one problem as / in a lv. I tried the recue disk, but Mandrake did not include the lvmtools, so I tried a new installation. The installation process told me that there was illegal division by 0 when acessing the information of the vg. So i did not change anything an stopped the installation, (switch off the pc because there is no sofware abort possible without change of the disk data at this stage of the installation). As I had no solution on the portable, I took the disk out of my portable, and put it as primary (so the disk is hda as in the portable) in a fixed machine (special cables available), I added a second disk as slave and installed the distribution on the second disk. Then the MSB has been replaced. That is really a problem because now I can not even start booting on the portable disk. All the tools are now available, diskdrake told me that the partition I finally added (hda1) was not in the vg. So I added the partition. It was an error I completly realize it now. An error has been repported on pvcreate, but mainly it has been done, but the data in /etc has not been created. whith pvdata now I can see that I have 2 pvs with number one. The orgiginal first (hda6) and the volume i finally added (hda1). pvremove reports an error, and does nothing. vgscan does nothing on rootvg as it is inconsistant. Anyway the system do not know the vg, /dev/rootvg/[123] do not exist. I think I should first, by patching the data by hand, either remove the last pv I added (hda1), or make it as beeing the 3rd pv of the vg. What ever I have to patch, I have to make the data on the pv consistant. When the data will then be available, I will backup the data, put the disk back in the portable and reinstall everything. Thank you for any help that would permit to save my data. Pascal Garcia Here is the result of the vgscan and pvdata root@localhost: /root[root@localhost root]# vgscan vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): current PV" can't get data of volume group "rootvg" from physical volume(s) vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume group root@localhost: /root[root@localhost root]# vgscan -v vgscan -- removing "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" vgscan -- creating empty "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) vgscan -- scanning for all active volume group(s) first vgscan -- reading data of volume group "rootvg" from physical volume(s) vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): current PV" can't get data of volume group "rootvg" from physical volume(s) vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume group root@localhost: /root[root@localhost root]# root@localhost: /root[root@localhost root]# root@localhost: /root[root@localhost root]# pvdata /dev/hda6 --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hda6 VG Name rootvg PV Size 20.71 GB [43423632 secs] / NOT usable 32.19 MB [LVM: 130 KB] PV# 1 PV Status available Allocatable yes (but full) Cur LV 3 PE Size (KByte) 32768 Total PE 661 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 661 PV UUID l1McpK-mb3s-j04q-NRFM-ili3-mcF0-MPHqnV --- Volume group --- VG Name VG Access read/write VG Status NOT available/resizable VG # 0 MAX LV 256 Cur LV 3 Open LV 0 MAX LV Size 2 TB Max PV 256 Cur PV 3 Act PV 3 VG Size 27.78 GB PE Size 32 MB Total PE 889 Alloc PE / Size 685 / 21.41 GB Free PE / Size 204 / 6.38 GB VG UUID dyEbIX-HcZF-9Jna-UmlR-bmKL-PiQ6-kFLTq0 --- List of logical volumes --- pvdata -- logical volume "/dev/rootvg/1" at offset 0 pvdata -- logical volume "/dev/rootvg/2" at offset 1 pvdata -- logical volume "/dev/rootvg/3" at offset 2 pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 3 is empty ... pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 255 is empty --- List of physical volume UUIDs --- 001: l1McpK-mb3s-j04q-NRFM-ili3-mcF0-MPHqnV 002: miXh0a-OJFd-7zRt-2oQT-uvHb-zsTO-xBV7O8 003: The3kH-g4Pr-eFe2-mcKO-pAgq-BUNr-NLXs1w root@localhost: /root[root@localhost root]# pvdata /dev/hda5 --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hda5 VG Name rootvg PV Size 313.74 MB [642537 secs] / NOT usable 32.19 MB [LVM: 128 KB] PV# 2 PV Status NOT available Allocatable yes (but full) Cur LV 1 PE Size (KByte) 32768 Total PE 8 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 8 PV UUID miXh0a-OJFd-7zRt-2oQT-uvHb-zsTO-xBV7O8 --- Volume group --- VG Name VG Access read/write VG Status NOT available/resizable VG # 0 MAX LV 256 Cur LV 3 Open LV 0 MAX LV Size 2 TB Max PV 256 Cur PV 3 Act PV 3 VG Size 27.78 GB PE Size 32 MB Total PE 889 Alloc PE / Size 685 / 21.41 GB Free PE / Size 204 / 6.38 GB VG UUID dyEbIX-HcZF-9Jna-UmlR-bmKL-PiQ6-kFLTq0 --- List of logical volumes --- pvdata -- logical volume "/dev/rootvg/1" at offset 0 pvdata -- logical volume "/dev/rootvg/2" at offset 1 pvdata -- logical volume "/dev/rootvg/3" at offset 2 pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 3 is empty ... pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 255 is empty --- List of physical volume UUIDs --- 001: l1McpK-mb3s-j04q-NRFM-ili3-mcF0-MPHqnV 002: miXh0a-OJFd-7zRt-2oQT-uvHb-zsTO-xBV7O8 003: The3kH-g4Pr-eFe2-mcKO-pAgq-BUNr-NLXs1w root@localhost: /root[root@localhost root]# pvdisplay /dev/hda6 --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 VG Name rootvg PV Size 20.71 GB [43423632 secs] / NOT usable 32.19 MB [LVM: 130 KB] PV# 1 PV Status available Allocatable yes (but full) Cur LV 3 PE Size (KByte) 32768 Total PE 661 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 661 PV UUID l1McpK-mb3s-j04q-NRFM-ili3-mcF0-MPHqnV root@localhost: /root[root@localhost root]# pvdisplay /dev/hda5 --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 VG Name rootvg PV Size 313.74 MB [642537 secs] / NOT usable 32.19 MB [LVM: 128 KB] PV# 2 PV Status NOT available Allocatable yes (but full) Cur LV 1 PE Size (KByte) 32768 Total PE 8 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 8 PV UUID miXh0a-OJFd-7zRt-2oQT-uvHb-zsTO-xBV7O8 root@localhost: /root/vg[root@localhost vg]# pvdisplay /dev/hda1 --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 VG Name rootvg PV Size 6.93 GB [14538762 secs] / NOT usable 32.19 MB [LVM: 128 KB] PV# 1 PV Status NOT available Allocatable yes Cur LV 0 PE Size (KByte) 32768 Total PE 220 Free PE 220 Allocated PE 0 PV UUID none root@localhost: /root/vg[root@localhost vg]# pvdata /dev/hda1 --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hda1 VG Name rootvg PV Size 6.93 GB [14538762 secs] / NOT usable 32.19 MB [LVM: 128 KB] PV# 1 PV Status NOT available Allocatable yes Cur LV 0 PE Size (KByte) 32768 Total PE 220 Free PE 220 Allocated PE 0 PV UUID none --- Volume group --- VG Name VG Access read/write VG Status NOT available/resizable VG # 0 MAX LV 256 Cur LV 0 Open LV 0 MAX LV Size 2 TB Max PV 256 Cur PV 1 Act PV 1 VG Size 6.88 GB PE Size 32 MB Total PE 220 Alloc PE / Size 0 / 0 Free PE / Size 220 / 6.88 GB VG UUID none --- List of logical volumes --- pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 0 is empty ... pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 255 is empty --- List of physical volume UUIDs --- Segmentation fault (core dumped) _______________________________________________ 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/
