RE: PV Name unknown device

"Thiruvel Thirumoolan - CTD, Chennai." <thiruvelt@hcltech.com> · Tue, 22 Feb 2005 20:25:51 +0530

I had 
a similar problem sometime back. I was using LVM2 and hence performed a 
'vgcfgrestore' and that helped me.

Thiruvel

  -----Original Message-----
From: James Griffith 
  [mailto:jbg@qwest.net]
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 8:59 
  AM
To: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject:  PV Name 
  unknown device 

  I have a problem... my lvm is broken.. I ran 
  pvscan and got this then ran pvdisplay /dev/gdc and got that and then ran 
  pvdisplay /dev/hdd and got that. I was working then I broke it somehow..... 
  Any help will be appreciated greatly...

  James

       # pvscan

  /dev/hdb: open failed: No medium found
  Couldn't find device with 
  uuid '1UD81y-U11m-zUe1-Doya-cLmP-5Qy5-PM36GU'.
  PV 
  /dev/hdc         VG vg_ftp   
  lvm2 [232.75 GB / 768.00 MB free]
  PV unknown device   VG 
  vg_ftp   lvm2 [232.75 GB / 10.75 GB free]
  Total: 2 [465.50 
  GB] / in use: 2 [465.50 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0   ]

       #  pvdisplay 
  /dev/hdc
  Couldn't find device with uuid 
  '1UD81y-U11m-zUe1-Doya-cLmP-5Qy5-PM36GU'.
  Couldn't find all physical 
  volumes for volume group vg_ftp.
  format_text: _vg_read failed to 
  read VG vg_ftp
  Couldn't find device with uuid 
  '1UD81y-U11m-zUe1-Doya-cLmP-5Qy5-PM36GU'.
  Couldn't find all physical 
  volumes for volume group vg_ftp.
  format_text: _vg_read failed to 
  read VG vg_ftp
  --- NEW Physical volume ---
  PV 
  Name               
  /dev/hdc
  VG Name
  PV 
  Size               
  232.88 GB

  Allocatable           
  NO
  PE Size (KByte)       0

  Total 
  PE              
  0
  Free 
  PE               
  0
  Allocated PE          
  0
  PV 
  UUID               
  ty0TuP-Xj5v-MZh3-1wV0-OHDm-uvu2-Goay71

       # pvdisplay 
  /dev/hdd
  --- Physical volume ---
  PV 
  Name               
  /dev/hdd
  VG 
  Name               
  vg_ftp
  PV 
  Size               
  232.75 GB / not usable 0

  Allocatable           
  yes
  PE Size (KByte)       
  262144
  Total 
  PE              
  931
  Free 
  PE               
  43
  Allocated 
  PE          888
  PV 
  UUID               
  1UD81y-U11m-zUe1-Doya-cLmP-5Qy5-PM36GU

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