I'm having problems with all the LVM volumes on my system after a forced reset (complete system hang forced the reset). I want to give as much info as possible so I'll use pastebin to keep the email shorter, if you want me to add the pastebin entries to an email I can. I spent some time on the irc channel earlier and despite pjc's efforts (thanks) a resolution was not found. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After the forced reset attempts at mounting any of the LVs give the following error: [root@cattlewash ~]# mount /home mount: special device /dev/vg1/Home does not exist My initial diagnosis of the problem was that 2 disks (yes I know unlikely!) had failed and lost labels and partition tables - http://guswrk.pastebin.com/696211. I now realise that it's not just the one VG & LV covering those disks but all LVs - one VG/LV covering two disks, and one VG with several LVs on a partition on another disk; and that those disks were setup without partitions. It should be noted that this was done years ago following instructions off a site so I've no idea what I did when setting things up. An fdisk of the disk with the an LVM partition and several LVs reports right, but gpart doesn't - http://guswrk.pastebin.com/696208 The odd thing about this all is that pvscan, vgscan & lvscan seem to report things ok. - http://guswrk.pastebin.com/696212 I tried using vgmknodes but then after running it attempts at mounting LVs gave: mount: /dev/vg2/ftp: can't read superblock The original mounting error message returns after a reboot of the system. And lvm dumpconfig gives - http://guswrk.pastebin.com/696195 I'm really at a loss as to what to do to recover the LVs. If I can at least recover the LVs in vg1 I'd be happy. I thought about doing an export then importing again, but I guess if it's the metadata that's hosed then this won't help. Anyone got any ideas that could help me? -- Nick _______________________________________________ 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/
