-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 My problem is that I accidentally left my LVM disks in my system when I installed windows XP On a seperate drive. I did not install windows to either of the LVM's so that should not be an issue. However when I replaced my linux drive, and booted into linux, I got the following error when my system tried to start up LVM (for vgchange -ay) mog root # vgchange -ay 2 logical volume(s) in volume group "vg0" now active Logical volume (lv0) contains an incomplete mapping table Unable to find volume group "vg_samsung" vg0 is my other lvm which thankfully is still there. now, whenever I do any of the 'scan' tools (vgscan, pvscan, lvscan) I get the following errors: vgscan: ... Logical volume (lv0) contains an incomplete mapping table Unable to find volume group "vg_samsung" pvscan: Logical volume (lv0) contains an incomplete mapping table ... lvscan: ... Logical volume (lv0) contains an incomplete mapping table Unable to find volume group "vg_samsung" however, if I do pvdisplay on my 2 drives I get some info mog root # pvdisplay /dev/hde <--my 160gig drive, I think the second drive in the LVM - --- NEW Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hde VG Name /vg_samsung PV Size 19.84 MB Allocatable NO PE Size (K..) 0 Total PE 0 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 0 PV UUID fXhdbW-S1KK-lSNs-kGSQ-dsb6-9Kkn-Q7xeTk That looks bad to me, but the first drive in the volume looks ok: mog root # pvdisplay /dev/hdg <--my 80gig drive - --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hdg VG Name /vg_samsung PV Size 74.56 GB / not usable 31.57 MB Allocatable yes (but full) PE Size (K..) 16384 Total PE 4770 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 4770 PV UUID aE0Tfs-UX8r-oTma-Eo35-mxSg-ZT5w-ZHPPTW so it looks like windows only blasted the second of the two drives (which came first in the bios) (or the first one it found?) I am desperate to get this data back (and unfortunately my /etc/lvm/backup or archive are empty :( Thankyou very much in advance! - -- - --Andrew Bovill PGP fingerprint: A00A 1E75 3AB0 610E 2300 6855 1890 C61E E590 F777 Link to PGP key: http://linuxboy.dyndns.org/~andy/public_key.gpg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCNN9xGJDGHuWQ93cRAtPnAJ9FbTYTo4qQHq4KAtCgchboewhtRQCfce/l Bk3ODWAXSpgnJz0i55RJK/Y= =bymV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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/
