You should not have recreated the lvmtab without backing up the total config, and restoring it after dding the partitions back. On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 03:45, David Minor wrote: > My volumes have disappeared. can anyone help recover? > > setup: > I have two drives partitioned identically so that they > can be mirrored. each drive has a boot, swap, and a > very large lvm partition. 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. > > Is there a way to recreate this information? > _______________________________________________ > 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/ -- Austin Gonyou <austin@coremetrics.com> Coremetrics, Inc. _______________________________________________ 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/