On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 02:54:39PM +0100, Òscar Álvarez Vilaplana wrote: > Hi, > > When I try to access my lvm group (for example, running vgdisplay) I > get the following error: > Couldn't find device with uuid '5VBBLW-70Dj-fwjf-Xvzc-7VZr-icQa-l9XQ2N'. > Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group data. > Couldn't find device with uuid '5VBBLW-70Dj-fwjf-Xvzc-7VZr-icQa-l9XQ2N'. > Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group data. > Volume group "data" doesn't exist > > It happened just right after I deleted a /dev/hda6 (a *non-lvm* > partition) and created two partitions in the space that the deleted > partition was occupying (/dev/hda6 and /dev/hda8) (my idea was to > shrink /dev/hda6, and that did work). > > Here's what the partition table looked before and after the change: > > before: > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 1459 11719386 8e Linux LVM > /dev/hda2 1460 3891 19535040 83 Linux > /dev/hda3 3892 14593 85963815 5 Extended > /dev/hda5 3892 5107 9767488+ 8e Linux LVM > /dev/hda6 5108 14225 73240303+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda7 14226 14471 1975963+ 8e Linux LVM > /dev/hda8 14472 14593 979933+ 82 Linux swap > > after: > /dev/hda1 * 1 1459 11719386 8e Linux LVM > /dev/hda2 1460 3891 19535040 83 Linux > /dev/hda3 3892 14593 85963815 5 Extended > /dev/hda5 3892 5107 9767488+ 8e Linux LVM > /dev/hda6 11796 14225 19518943+ 8e Linux LVM > /dev/hda7 14226 14471 1975963+ 8e Linux LVM > /dev/hda8 5108 11795 53721328+ 83 Linux > > > I looked up (in /etc/lvm) the uuid lvm was complaining about and found > out it corresponds to /dev/hda7. This seems odd, /dev/hda7 should not > have been affected by the partition deleting & creation... its start > and end cylinder remained the same throughout the process and there > was no partition overlapping. > > I thought maybe changing the uuid for /dev/hda7 in the /etc/lvm files, > but I couldn't find how to get the correct uuid for /dev/hda7. > > What course of action do you suggest? Is it possible to get the data back? vgscan ; vgdisplay > > Thanks a lot, > Oscar. > > _______________________________________________ > 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/
