I've just noticed that the files in /dev/mygroup/volumeN are actually symlinks to /dev/mapper/mygroup-volumeN, which doesn't exist. Any ideas on how to proceed? Thanks! On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 20:56:14 +0100, Òscar Álvarez Vilaplana <grimborg@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks! > > I did a pvcreate --restorefile thefile --uuid theuuid mygroup and then > vgcfgrestore thefile. > > Now the logical volumes appear in /dev/mygroup/, but when I try to > mount them I get the error "mount: special device /mount/mygroup/myvol > does not exist" > > I googled for an answer but I couldn't find anything relevant. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks! > > > > On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 19:29:07 +0000, Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 07:47:57PM +0100, Òscar Álvarez Vilaplana wrote: > > > What I've tried is running pvcreate on the formatted partition, but > > > vgdisplay complains that that it can't find the partition with the > > > uuid of the lost partition. I then tried hexedit'ing the partition and > > > changing its uuid, but this didn't fool lvm either: i got the same > > > error. > > > > man vgcfgrestore > > > > Alasdair > > -- > > agk@redhat.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/ > > > _______________________________________________ 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/
