I am having trouble with accessing the logical volume. I was starting to add a forth drive to the lvm group. I went through the steps outlined in the How To document. Everything seemed fine the only thing that I had left to do is extend the file system on to the added drive. I walked away from my machine for a day or so and when I came back my motherboard was having trouble (would not even boot). I replaced the mb and reinstalled Linux on a non-LVM drive. I believe where my mistake was when I reformated the forth drive that I was adding to the system to a non LVM format with out doing a lvreduce (or is it vgreduce). It looks as if the volume group is intact but I'm not sure how to get it to a state where lvdisplay recognizes it so that it can be mounted. Any suggestions?? lvmdiskscan -- reading all disks / partitions (this may take a while...) lvmdiskscan -- /dev/ide/host2/bus1/target0/lun0/part1 [ 93.16 GB] Primary LVM partition [0x8E] lvmdiskscan -- /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 [ 114.50 GB] Primary LVM partition [0x8E] lvmdiskscan -- /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target1/lun0/part1 [ 114.50 GB] Primary LVM partition [0x8E] lvmdiskscan -- /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part1 [ 189.92 GB] Primary LINUX native partition [0x83] lvmdiskscan -- /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 [ 5.85 GB] Primary LINUX native partition [0x83] lvmdiskscan -- /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 [ 12.79 GB] DOS extended partition [0x05] lvmdiskscan -- /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 [ 494.16 MB] Extended [0x82] lvmdiskscan -- /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 [ 12.31 GB] Extended LINUX native partition [0x83] lvmdiskscan -- 5 disks lvmdiskscan -- 0 whole disks lvmdiskscan -- 0 loop devices lvmdiskscan -- 0 multiple devices lvmdiskscan -- 0 network block devices lvmdiskscan -- 8 partitions lvmdiskscan -- 3 LVM physical volume partitions lvscan -- no volume groups found vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): current PV" can't get data of volume group "Public-Lan" from physical volume(s) vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume group pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host2/bus1/target0/lun0/disc" is in no VG [12 GB] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host2/bus1/target0/lun0/part1" is associated to unknown VG "Public-Lan" (run vgscan) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/disc" is in no VG [12.03 GB] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1" is associated to unknown VG "Public-Lan" (run vgscan) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target1/lun0/disc" is in no VG [12.03 GB] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target1/lun0/part1" is associated to unknown VG "Public-Lan" (run vgscan) pvscan -- total: 6 [358.22 GB] / in use: 3 [322.16 GB] / in no VG: 3 [36.06 GB] --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/ide/host2/bus1/target0/lun0/part1 VG Name Public-Lan PV Size 93.16 GB [195371505 secs] / NOT usable 16.18 MB [LVM: 147 KB] PV# 3 PV Status NOT available Allocatable yes (but full) Cur LV 1 PE Size (KByte) 16384 Total PE 5961 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 5961 PV UUID REJhOK-Nz1F-uYib-VIaT-GW0W-OhAp-ox8Epq --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 VG Name Public-Lan PV Size 114.50 GB [240121665 secs] / NOT usable 16.18 MB [LVM: 152 KB] PV# 1 PV Status NOT available Allocatable yes (but full) Cur LV 1 PE Size (KByte) 16384 Total PE 7326 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 7326 PV UUID xfRQNU-dw1X-Dmic-JQIx-tI6X-Qe9w-KeIcfk --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target1/lun0/part1 VG Name Public-Lan PV Size 114.50 GB [240121665 secs] / NOT usable 16.18 MB [LVM: 152 KB] PV# 2 PV Status NOT available Allocatable yes (but full) Cur LV 1 PE Size (KByte) 16384 Total PE 7326 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 7326 PV UUID Kd9Y5q-TnDo-LB1v-Jphw-LFyY-TP2P-dqK9k3 _______________________________________________ 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/
