On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 08:03:04PM +0000, Nick Gushlow wrote: > On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 14:31, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote: > > > > > Deactivate the VG and rerun pvcreate/vgcfgrestore on the pvremoved disk, > > vgscan and "vgchange -ay vg2" afterwards. > > > > Excellent that did the trick. :-) > > The only way I found to get rid of the "VGDA in kernel and lvmtab are > NOT consistent: please run vgscan" error when running 'vgchange -an vg2" > was to reboot. > > For future reference, is there a better/proper method to get rid of that > error? If you are able to deactivate the VG without a reboot, which is rather unlikely because you've got filesystems on LVs mounted etc., do that. Unless the LVM metadata gets overwritten externally, LVM will keep both (metadata on disk and in kernel) in sync. > > Nick. > _______________________________________________ > 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/
