Hi. I hope this is an appropriate forum to which to post this. We are running a AMD-64 box with Suse 9.1 and recently has a hard-reboot (plug was pulled). Upon restart, we got fdisk errors on our Volumes. Upon some prodding, we find that we are missing some physical volumes and that LVM doesn't seem to know about a few partitions. Unfortunately, we back one volume up to another and they were both hit with this problem. TIA for any hints on how to proceed - the data is a real pain to regenerate. # vgscan Couldn't find device with uuid 'Gu9G0X-wzof-x43j-VVw8-XTZ0-DSai-zCriVl'. Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group system. Couldn't find device with uuid 'Gu9G0X-wzof-x43j-VVw8-XTZ0-DSai-zCriVl'. Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group system. Volume group "system" not found # pvscan Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Couldn't find device with uuid 'Gu9G0X-wzof-x43j-VVw8-XTZ0-DSai-zCriVl'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'OpS7Kt-gVKo-nWN0-r37G-cZZs-CMD4-5eENIE'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'Gu9G0X-wzof-x43j-VVw8-XTZ0-DSai-zCriVl'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'OpS7Kt-gVKo-nWN0-r37G-cZZs-CMD4-5eENIE'. PV unknown device VG system lvm2 [233.74 GB / 0 free] PV unknown device VG system lvm2 [233.74 GB / 0 free] PV /dev/sdc2 VG system lvm2 [225.73 GB / 0 free] PV /dev/sdd3 VG system lvm2 [222.73 GB / 40.94 GB free] Total: 4 [915.94 GB] / in use: 4 [915.94 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ] # pvcreate --uuid OpS7Kt-gVKo-nWN0-r37G-cZZs-CMD4-5eENIE --restorefile /etc/lvm/backup/foo /dev/sdb1 Couldn't find device with uuid 'Gu9G0X-wzof-x43j-VVw8-XTZ0-DSai-zCriVl'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'OpS7Kt-gVKo-nWN0-r37G-cZZs-CMD4-5eENIE'. /dev/sdb1: Couldn't find device. # lvmdiskscan /dev/sda [ 233.76 GB] /dev/sdb [ 233.76 GB] /dev/sdc [ 233.76 GB] /dev/sdc1 [ 8.01 GB] /dev/sdc2 [ 225.74 GB] LVM physical volume /dev/sdd [ 233.76 GB] /dev/sdd1 [ 1.00 GB] /dev/sdd2 [ 10.00 GB] /dev/sdd3 [ 222.73 GB] LVM physical volume 4 disks 3 partitions 0 LVM physical volume whole disks 2 LVM physical volumes # But.... # fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30515 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 30513 245095641 8e Linux LVM Disk /dev/sdb: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30515 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 30513 245095641 8e Linux LVM Disk /dev/sdc: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30515 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 1 1045 8393931 82 Linux swap /dev/sdc2 1046 30513 236701710 8e Linux LVM Disk /dev/sdd: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30515 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdd1 1 131 1052226 82 Linux swap /dev/sdd2 * 132 1437 10490445 83 Linux /dev/sdd3 1438 30513 233552970 8e Linux LVM # cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 8 0 245117376 sda 8 1 245095641 sda1 8 16 245117376 sdb 8 17 245095641 sdb1 8 32 245117376 sdc 8 33 8393931 sdc1 8 34 236701710 sdc2 8 48 245117376 sdd 8 49 1052226 sdd1 8 50 10490445 sdd2 8 51 233552970 sdd3 It appears that the paritions are there and are of the correct type, but that LVM can't see them and won't allow me to re-create the UUIDs. Regards, Ben _______________________________________________ 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/
