I have following problem: I'm running lvm on a Linux 2.4.20 Kernel since 2 Years now without problems There is only one PV a Software RAID5 (/dev/md0) consiting out of 6 Disks No I had to exchage the motherboard due to a hw failure. After this exchage the Software Raid found 5 of the 6 Disks and started without redudancy. At this point the lvm was still working correct. I hot added the missing Drive to the RAID again which worked fine. After that i reebootet the system for other reasons. The result: The Raid still work fine but vgscan Fails with following error: ---------------- vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) vgscan -- ERROR "pv_read_pe(): PV size invalid" can't get data of volume group "fileserver" 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 ---------------- Does anyone knows how I can recover from this error and save my data. Thanks and greetings from Germany Simon Additional Information: 1) --------- Version of LVM ------------ Logical Volume Manager 1.0.6(mp-v6) Heinz Mauelshagen, Sistina Software 25/10/2002 (IOP 10) 2) --------- possibility of update ------------ I cannot do any updates that include Kernel updates since the hdd controlor runs only with this kernel version 3) --------- Result of pvscan ------------ pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/md0" is associated to unknown VG "fileserver" (run vgscan) pvscan -- total: 1 [8.02 GB] / in use: 1 [8.02 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0] 4) --------- Result of pvdisplay /dev/md0 ------------ --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/md0 VG Name fileserver PV Size 931.55 GB [1953606400 secs] / NOT usable 32.25 MB [LVM: 244 KB] PV# 1 PV Status available Allocatable yes Cur LV 10 PE Size (KByte) 32768 Total PE 29808 Free PE 2256 Allocated PE 27552 PV UUID 5fK20C-BzqI-6PIc-nj8b-3DTD-TJ3p-0uJpn4 5) --------- Result of pvdata /dev/md0 ------------ --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/md0 VG Name fileserver PV Size 931.55 GB [1953606400 secs] / NOT usable 32.25 MB [LVM: 244 KB] PV# 1 PV Status available Allocatable yes Cur LV 10 PE Size (KByte) 32768 Total PE 29808 Free PE 2256 Allocated PE 27552 PV UUID 5fK20C-BzqI-6PIc-nj8b-3DTD-TJ3p-0uJpn4 --- Volume group --- VG Name VG Access read/write VG Status NOT available/resizable VG # 0 MAX LV 256 Cur LV 10 Open LV 0 MAX LV Size 2 TB Max PV 256 Cur PV 1 Act PV 1 VG Size 931.50 GB PE Size 32 MB Total PE 29808 Alloc PE / Size 27552 / 861 GB Free PE / Size 2256 / 70.50 GB VG UUID mDIV2I-dJd3-0oJW-XJt3-nHI7-sAjv-8bs8pj --- List of logical volumes --- pvdata -- logical volume "/dev/fileserver/db" at offset 0 pvdata -- logical volume "/dev/fileserver/docs" at offset 1 pvdata -- logical volume "/dev/fileserver/code" at offset 2 pvdata -- logical volume "/dev/fileserver/pics" at offset 3 pvdata -- logical volume "/dev/fileserver/mp3" at offset 4 pvdata -- logical volume "/dev/fileserver/arch" at offset 5 pvdata -- logical volume "/dev/fileserver/pg" at offset 6 pvdata -- logical volume "/dev/fileserver/pt" at offset 7 pvdata -- logical volume "/dev/fileserver/bak" at offset 8 pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 9 is empty pvdata -- logical volume "/dev/fileserver/films" at offset 10 pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 11 is empty pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 12 is empty pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 13 is empty [..... empty volums structs cut out ...] pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 254 is empty pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 255 is empty --- List of physical volume UUIDs --- 001: 5fK20C-BzqI-6PIc-nj8b-3DTD-TJ3p-0uJpn4 6) --------- Result vgscan -d (DEBUG MODE) ------------ <1> lvm_get_iop_version -- CALLED <22> lvm_check_special -- CALLED <22> lvm_check_special -- LEAVING [... a lot lines cut out ...] <333> vg_check_name -- CALLED with VG: fileserver <4444> lvm_check_chars -- CALLED with name: "fileserver" <4444> lvm_check_chars -- LEAVING with ret: 0 <333> vg_check_name -- LEAVING with ret: 0 <333> pv_read_all_pv_of_vg -- CALLED with vg_name: "fileserver" <4444> vg_check_name -- CALLED with VG: fileserver <55555> lvm_check_chars -- CALLED with name: "fileserver" <55555> lvm_check_chars -- LEAVING with ret: 0 <4444> vg_check_name -- LEAVING with ret: 0 <333> pv_read_all_pv_of_vg -- LEAVING with ret: 0 <22> pv_read_all_pe_of_vg -- pv_count: 1 <333> pv_read_pe -- CALLED with /dev/md0 and 4024434688 <333> pv_read_pe -- LEAVING with ret: -277 <22> pv_read_all_pe_of_vg -- LEAVING with ret: -277 <1> vg_read_with_pv_and_lv -- LEAVING with ret: -277 <1> lvm_error -- CALLED with: -277 <1> lvm_error -- LEAVING with: "pv_read_pe(): PV size invalid" vgscan -- ERROR "pv_read_pe(): PV size invalid" can't get data of volume group "fileserver" from physical volume(s) <1> vg_free -- CALLED <1> vg_free -- LEAVING with ret: -99 <1> lvm_interrupt -- CALLED <1> lvm_interrupt -- LEAVING <1> lvm_unlock -- CALLED <1> lvm_unlock -- LEAVING with ret: 0 <1> lvm_unlock -- CALLED <1> lvm_unlock -- LEAVING with ret: -104 vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume group _______________________________________________ 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/
