Hello, linux-lvm-list, I write to you because I couldn't yet find a solution to the given situation yet: Suse 9.3 Pro, 3 IDE-disks with various partitions ... Yesterday I decided to reorganize things, moved data and freed up some partitions. Changed their ID to 8e with fdisk, rebooted. fdisk -l displayed them fine, so I went on to create a Volume Group. Added three PVs, created an LV with xfs on it, worked great. Moved data back to this new LV, cleared up two more partitions. Changed their ID, rebooted, added them to the Group. Somehow one of these partitions weren't listed in pvscan as member of the group. And it started telling me 3 PV(s) found for VG Gruppe1: expected 5 Hmmm... Much fiddling from then ... trying to get things working again, web-research ... "vgreduce --removemissing" sounded good, but didn't get me back ... Right now I have: root@oops1:~ # pvdisplay Found duplicate PV bmKfBpNQfkiKBMli7WfG9fXP4aWR6huV: using /dev/hdc2 not /dev/hda1 Found duplicate PV bmKfBpNQfkiKBMli7WfG9fXP4aWR6huV: using /dev/hdc2 not /dev/hda1 2 PV(s) found for VG Gruppe1: expected 5 Logical volume (LV01) contains an incomplete mapping table. --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hda1 VG Name Gruppe1 PV Size 9.77 GB / not usable 5.37 MB Allocatable yes (but full) PE Size (KByte) 4096 Total PE 2499 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 2499 PV UUID bmKfBp-NQfk-iKBM-li7W-fG9f-XP4a-WR6huV --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hdb1 VG Name Gruppe1 PV Size 16.77 GB / not usable 7.01 MB Allocatable yes PE Size (KByte) 4096 Total PE 4291 Free PE 16 Allocated PE 4275 PV UUID DUwDDw-mKkp-7atr-A6cP-m5Ej-dAOD-O7TwEA root@oops1:~ # vgdisplay Found duplicate PV bmKfBpNQfkiKBMli7WfG9fXP4aWR6huV: using /dev/hdc2 not /dev/hda1 Found duplicate PV bmKfBpNQfkiKBMli7WfG9fXP4aWR6huV: using /dev/hdc2 not /dev/hda1 2 PV(s) found for VG Gruppe1: expected 5 Volume group "Gruppe1" doesn't exist No clue about that duplicate PV ... Is there any way out of this without losing the data? I assume it is still valid, but I don't know how to access it properly. No problem to recreate the LVM if I can pull off the data before doing that ... -- Please let me know any pointers or hints, I'll also provide more information if needed. Please also CC: your replies to me as I am not (yet) a subscriber to this list. Thanks a lot. -- Regards, Stefan _______________________________________________ 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/