I've got a volume group (vg2) that spans 3 partitions on two disks; hdb1, hdb5, hdc. hdb1 and hdb5 are the only partitions on disk hdb. Disk hdb is failing and I've got an identical replacement from Maxtor, so I stuck the new disk in and tried to follow the instructions on the LVM howto for removing a disk. I've successfully transfered hdb5 to the new disk (hdd) but I got an error when trying to move hdb1; I can't remember that error now but I am assuming that there may be damage to that part of the disk as the disk is failing. After trying a few things I found on the lvm lists and other places and I'm now at a stage where a vgscan reports ------------------------------------------------------------------------ vgscan -- only found 4253 of 4267 LEs for LV /dev/vg2/storage (0) vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): allocated LE of LV" can't get data of volume group "vg2" from physical volume(s) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I tried a couple of things from very old posts I found on the lvm mailing list including compiling LVM2 from cvs so I could do a vgreduce --removemissing but that didn't work (I assume because they are lvm1) Can anyone tell me what might be wrong, and more importantly how I can get the volume group back up. I am assuming that as the data is spread across 3 disks if I can't recover from this error then I will have lost everything on them. Unfortunately I don't have a backup because I have nothing large enough to backup the data in the volume group. TIA, Nick Gushlow. _______________________________________________ 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/
