I'm just a listener on this list and by no means an expert on this: should my memory not fail me, then pvcreate on an existing PV should be safe to run. I think the reason why noone answers you is because you really should read through the archive and probably some howto's, I'm pretty sure I've seen this question a couple of times on this list. Noone likes to give answers that have already been given a couple of times. ~David On 4/30/05, Lance Reed <lreed@ruckusnetwork.com> wrote: > I know you guys don't normally respond to direct email about LVM. > > But I have a situation that the PV in a VG seems to have lost its > metadata, and > there is a discrepancy between What the OS thinks the partition for a > device that uses > LVM is and what LVM thinks it should be (/dev/sde vs /dev/sde1). A > vgrestore complains > about pv_read not working. So my question is, if I run a new pvcreate > on the disk device, > will it destroy the LVM data on the existing device. Or will it just > setup a placeholder for > the metadata, and I can then just do a vgcgrestore and put that back in > place without > losing data. > > Thanks for any suggestions and your time. > > Sincerely, > > Lance Reed > lreed@ruckusnetwork.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > _______________________________________________ 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/
