On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 11:04:09PM +0000, Nick Gushlow wrote: > On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 12:34, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote: > > > > > You need to select the last valid metadata backup of vg2 from /etc/lvmconf > > (check it with vgcfgrestore -ll -f /etc/lvmconf/vg2.conf[.#.old]; see > > 'man vgcfgrestore for metadata archive file names) and restore it. > > > > Say vg.conf.1.old is the valid one: > > > > for dev in AllPVsOfVG2 # list all PVs reported by vgcfgrestore -ll above > > do > > pvcreate -ff $dev > > vgcfgrestore -f /etc/lvmconf/vg.conf.1.old $dev > > done > > vgscan > > vgchange -ay vg2 > > > > > That did the trick thanks. :-) > > Of course in a moment of not concentrating I messed things up again. I > still had pvremove on the disk from when I previously installed the lvm2 > tools, and although I wanted to do a vgreduce I did a pvremove. Even > when it kicked up an error I just followed what it said and typed > pvremove -ff. oops :-/ > > Now I get a a similar error as before with vgscan, and other tools give > a 'VGDA in kernel and lvmtab are NTO consistent: please run vgscan' > error. > > I tried re-running what you suggested above but vgcfgrestore gives a > 'can't restore part of active volume group "vg2"' error. > > Is there anyway to recover from my stupidity (other than a lobotomy!)? :) Deactivate the VG and rerun pvcreate/vgcfgrestore on the pvremoved disk, vgscan and "vgchange -ay vg2" afterwards. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Red Hat GmbH 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/
