--- Rupert Hair <rupert.hair@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > We had a problem with the > > root partition on the first drive, so we decided > to > > restore from the mirror using dd. After doing > this, > > the VGs are not in existence anymore. running > > 'vgscan' shows it creates /etc/lvmtab and > > /etc/lvmtab.d correctly, but they are empty. > How were the drives mirrored? Did you use some sort > of raid or was it all done > by using dd to copy the whole drive? sorry, left that part out: using rsync to mirror the drives. > What does pvscan show? > pvscan complains about "pv_read(): read" reading physical volumes. with -d on pvscan, I think everything looks good until: pv_read -- going to read /dev/md9 pv_read -- LEAVING with ret: -282 Thanks, dm _______________________________________________ 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/
