Sorry, I forgot the attachment, Hello, I made the error in using pvmove and vgreduce from a SuSE 9.2 bootdisk (kernel 2.6.x) and LVM2 on a LVM created by SuSE 8.2 (kernel 2.4.20) and LVM. in the attached file lvm_crash.txt I add the exact output from vgscan, vgmknodes, vgimport, pvdata and pvdisplay. (the stderr output of the same commands is in the other file lvm_crash_2.txt) Basically vgscan reports: vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) vgscan -- found active volume group "sysvg" vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): current PV" can't get data of volume group "systemvg" from physical volume(s) vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created (I created another VG, sysvg, in the meantime.) I believe that all PEs (i.e. all of my lost data) are on my /dev/hda7, as pvdisplay on the other PVs of my VG systemvg always used to report: "Allocated PE 0". However, the VG "systemvg" is not recognised anymore. I left the /dev/hda7 partition untouched - but I repartitioned the disk where the other (presumebly empty) PVs were on. I put the last systemvg.conf file in the attachment as well (from probably before the vgreduce actually (not) happened). Do you see a chance in recovering my data? Thanks a lot, -- Regards, J. Lange
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