/ 2005-09-16 02:23:46 +0300 \ Suleyman Kutlu: > Two VGs. > > systemvg on /dev/sda4 > datavg on /dev/sdb1 > slightly moving the chunks around in your mail, so it is more obvious... > What I am trying to do is: > > - At least get the directory contents of the filesystem > /dev/datavg/snk2lv inorder to know what I have lost. > Is it possible to get this with jfsutils ?? Any experience ? hm... > - If there is a way to fix-up the device-mapper tables and get my > filesystems back, it is ofcourse welcome. well, comparing this: > ls -la /dev/mapper > total 124 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 16 2005 . > drwxr-xr-x 36 root root 118784 Sep 16 01:49 .. > crw------- 1 root root 10, 63 Sep 16 2005 control > brw------- 1 root root 253, 0 Jun 5 03:24 systemvg-optlv > brw------- 1 root root 253, 1 Jun 5 03:25 systemvg-varlv > brw------- 1 root root 253, 1 May 10 03:08 systemvg-rootlv > brw------- 1 root root 253, 2 Jun 5 03:26 systemvg-tmplv > brw------- 1 root root 253, 3 Jun 5 03:26 systemvg-usrlv > brw------- 1 root root 253, 4 Jun 5 03:27 systemvg-temp > brw------- 1 root root 253, 6 Jul 16 20:32 datavg-rootlv > brw------- 1 root root 253, 7 Jul 16 22:40 datavg-snk2lv > brw------- 1 root root 253, 8 Sep 16 2005 datavg-backup > dmsetup ls output is: > > systemvg-optlv (253, 0) > systemvg-tmplv (253, 1) > systemvg-usrlv (253, 2) > systemvg-varlv (253, 3) > systemvg-temp (253, 4) > systemvg-rootlv(253, 5) > datavg-rootlv (253, 6) > datavg-snk2lv (253, 7) > datavg-backup (253, 8) for a start, we see that the device nodes for -optlv and -temp are correct, and the datavg seems correct. but 253,1 apears two times in the listing, and 253,5 is missing... recreate those nodes with # dmsetup mknodes or by hand with: # cd /dev/mapper # rm systemvg-{varlv,rootlv,tmplv,usrlv} # mknod systemvg-tmplv b 253 1 # mknod systemvg-usrlv b 253 2 # mknod systemvg-varlv b 253 3 # mknod systemvg-rootlv b 253 5 now, how this could happen is an other question. note that maybe the mapping of names to minors is still wrong. but at least all of the devices should be there again; (253,5) was missing completely before. hope that gets you one step further. -- : Lars Ellenberg Tel +43-1-8178292-0 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax +43-1-8178292-82 : : Schoenbrunner Str. 244, A-1120 Vienna/Europe http://www.linbit.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/