When i was extending a group to include another PV somehow the Group disappeared from the devices list after a reboot. The last entry in /dev/lvm/backup shows me executing /usr/sbin/vgextend swampvg /dev/hdb2 to an already working /dev/swampvg/swamplv with a non striped /dev/hdb4 in it. I then did a mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hdb2 (the new disk) which was probably how i got into trouble. I really need the image from /dev/hdb4 and im afraid to do anything with it without knowing exactly what im doing. Im thinking all i need is to recreate the VG and LV with only /dev/hdb4. I have several archives in the /dev/lvm/archive but docs are not clear how to approach this. I backed up the partition to another with dd so i could try work on it safely, but the LVM tools didnt like the fact that it had two uuid labels the same and always picked /dev/hdb4 to work on. Since then Ive been reading what little there is on LVM. Cant even find a sysadmin book with more than 3 pages on the subject. Im very surprised at the man page for vgcfgrestore where its options are not even explained. Any help is greatly appreciated. Pete _______________________________________________ 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/
