First figure out if your disks are there: dmesg|grep [sh]d
Check for partitions: fdisk -l
then see whether LVM stuff is there: pvscan ; vgscan
Look at your distro's boot-up process.... maybe you installed a new
kernel and forgot to include the initrd that activates the VGs (via:
vgchange -a y)
Or maybe you enabled devfs or something, and the discs now show up with
a different device path.
kitchhiking.org wrote:
Hi,
I'm using LVM only for about a month now and it ran flawless until
today.
After rebooting the system all my PVs/VGs/LVs were gone, "mount" saying
e.g.:
> mount: /dev/WD2000JB-182GB/srv is not a valid block device
/etc/lvmtab now is an empty file, /etc/lvmtab.d, /etc/lvm/backup and
/etc/lvm/archive are empty as well.
This is strange because etc/lvm/lvm.conf says that backups and archives
should be created but i can't find anything.
What remains are some files in /etc/lvmconf named
"WD2000JB-182GB.conf" and
"IBM80G2.conf" and some older versions of those.
I read on the web *) about recovering the data using pvcreate/
vgcfgrestore,
but since "/etc/lvm/backup" and "/etc/lvm/archive" are empty I don't
know
how to retrieve the UUIDs of my PVs.
*) http://codeworks.gnomedia.com/archives/2005/general/lvm_recovery/
Of course I don't have any further backup of these, since I first
read about their
importance doing that when digging for hints howto recover my data.
(stupid me (tm))
The System is running Debian Sarge stable (2.4.27-2) on a
P3/Intel BX with 3 harddrives attached to it. LVM is Version 1.08
from /etc/fstab:
#lvm
/dev/WD2000JB-182GB/mld /home/mld auto
suid,dev,exec 0 0
/dev/WD2000JB-182GB/srv /srv/foo auto
suid,noexec,nodev 0 0
/dev/IBM80G2/costa_home /home/costa auto
suid,noexec,nodev 0 0
where:
/dev/WD2000JB-182GB/ is situated on /dev/hda (a 200GB Harddisk)
/dev/IBM80G2/costa_home sits on /dev/hde (an 80GB Harddisk attached
to an onboard
HPT366 ATA66 Controller)
pvdisplay /dev/WD2000JB-182GB says:
> cserver:/etc/lvm# pvdisplay /dev/hde
> pvdisplay -- ERROR "pv_read(): pv_create_name_from_kdev_t" no VALID
physical volume "/dev/hde"
vgdisplay just returns:
> cserver:/etc/lvm# vgdisplay
> vgdisplay -- no volume groups found
If any of you has a clou how i could recover my data (or just the
UUIDs) or
maybe rebuild the LVM I'd be really grateful.
Hope to hear from you,
Constantin
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