On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 01:24:29PM -0300, Rodolfo Sikora de Melo 2 wrote: > Guys, I'm desperate needing help. > After a reboot one of lvm pv stopped do work. What *exactly* happened to your LVM PVs before the reboot ? > > The scenario: > 10 disks: > 5 disks in channel A Raid 5 > 5 disks in channel B Raid 5 > > the sda has sda1 sda2 sda3, where only sda3 is a physical volume and is working great. > > the sda has sdb1 sdb2 sdb3, where only sdb3 is a physical volume and after a reboot stopped to work. > > licor:~/uuid_fixer# pvdisplay /dev/sdb3 > pvdisplay -- no physical volume identifier on "/dev/sdb3" Presumably your RAID is fully operational, some{one|thing} has written over the LVM metadata. At least partionally. > > What I can do to fix this? I have 100Gb of important data inside this PV. If just the LVM metatada and no data on /dev/sdb3 is gone *and* you've got /etc/lvmconf/ metadata backups, you want to run: # pvcreate -ff /dev/sdb3 # vgcfgrestore -n VGName /dev/sdb3 Before you do that or any other changes to your disks, let's make clear what really happend first! > > I can provide any information u need to help me! > Thank you very much. > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > Acesse nosso portal www.click21.com.br > > Porque internet gr?tis, nem a Embratel pode fazer mais barato. Mas pode fazer melhor. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/