Hi all, I had a disk that stopped working. After booting I could see with pvdisplay that the disk was missing. After reading everything I could find via google I thought that you were supposed to run 'vgreduce --remove-missing volgrp0' to remove the missing disk from the group. After this the volume group looks OK but the entire logical volume got removed! Am I screwed now or is there any way to salvage the data which is on the remaining three disks? [root@mistik ~]# pvdisplay Couldn't find device with uuid 'dvPVGp-9Vcg-b6Gp-s4cC-2pwK-cvyc-ATbE53'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'dvPVGp-9Vcg-b6Gp-s4cC-2pwK-cvyc-ATbE53'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'dvPVGp-9Vcg-b6Gp-s4cC-2pwK-cvyc-ATbE53'. --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/sda VG Name volgrp0 PV Size 189.92 GB / not usable 0 Allocatable yes (but full) PE Size (KByte) 4096 Total PE 48620 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 48620 PV UUID zyELIl-MgM6-9zoD-G0PI-c1Wy-CZ1i-Sps8EV --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hdd VG Name volgrp0 PV Size 115.04 GB / not usable 0 Allocatable yes (but full) PE Size (KByte) 4096 Total PE 29449 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 29449 PV UUID yIgADr-5HXP-lFZC-KtZq-onX2-vaNG-aFiLLI --- Physical volume --- PV Name unknown device VG Name volgrp0 PV Size 115.04 GB / not usable 0 Allocatable yes (but full) PE Size (KByte) 4096 Total PE 29449 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 29449 PV UUID dvPVGp-9Vcg-b6Gp-s4cC-2pwK-cvyc-ATbE53 --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hda4 VG Name volgrp0 PV Size 111.17 GB / not usable 0 Allocatable yes (but full) PE Size (KByte) 4096 Total PE 28460 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 28460 PV UUID Lh7KKJ-OGDQ-Gv4A-4l7U-TRGS-mfma-R2LrPt [root@mistik ~]# vgreduce --removemissing volgrp0 Couldn't find device with uuid 'dvPVGp-9Vcg-b6Gp-s4cC-2pwK-cvyc-ATbE53'. Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group volgrp0. Couldn't find device with uuid 'dvPVGp-9Vcg-b6Gp-s4cC-2pwK-cvyc-ATbE53'. Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group volgrp0. Couldn't find device with uuid 'dvPVGp-9Vcg-b6Gp-s4cC-2pwK-cvyc-ATbE53'. Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group volgrp0. Couldn't find device with uuid 'dvPVGp-9Vcg-b6Gp-s4cC-2pwK-cvyc-ATbE53'. Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group volgrp0. Couldn't find device with uuid 'dvPVGp-9Vcg-b6Gp-s4cC-2pwK-cvyc-ATbE53'. Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group volgrp0. Couldn't find device with uuid 'dvPVGp-9Vcg-b6Gp-s4cC-2pwK-cvyc-ATbE53'. Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group volgrp0. Couldn't find device with uuid 'dvPVGp-9Vcg-b6Gp-s4cC-2pwK-cvyc-ATbE53'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'dvPVGp-9Vcg-b6Gp-s4cC-2pwK-cvyc-ATbE53'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'dvPVGp-9Vcg-b6Gp-s4cC-2pwK-cvyc-ATbE53'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'dvPVGp-9Vcg-b6Gp-s4cC-2pwK-cvyc-ATbE53'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'dvPVGp-9Vcg-b6Gp-s4cC-2pwK-cvyc-ATbE53'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'dvPVGp-9Vcg-b6Gp-s4cC-2pwK-cvyc-ATbE53'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'dvPVGp-9Vcg-b6Gp-s4cC-2pwK-cvyc-ATbE53'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'dvPVGp-9Vcg-b6Gp-s4cC-2pwK-cvyc-ATbE53'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'dvPVGp-9Vcg-b6Gp-s4cC-2pwK-cvyc-ATbE53'. Wrote out consistent volume group volgrp0 [root@mistik ~]# vgdisplay --- Volume group --- VG Name volgrp0 System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 3 Metadata Sequence No 9 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV 0 Cur LV 0 Open LV 0 Max PV 0 Cur PV 3 Act PV 3 VG Size 416.13 GB PE Size 4.00 MB Total PE 106529 Alloc PE / Size 0 / 0 Free PE / Size 106529 / 416.13 GB VG UUID 5C4Hnl-YVct-jtv9-HM5Z-J63D-XePc-ANcpx8 [root@mistik ~]# lvdisplay [root@mistik ~]# [root@mistik ~]# pvdisplay --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/sda VG Name volgrp0 PV Size 189.92 GB / not usable 0 Allocatable yes PE Size (KByte) 4096 Total PE 48620 Free PE 48620 Allocated PE 0 PV UUID zyELIl-MgM6-9zoD-G0PI-c1Wy-CZ1i-Sps8EV --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hdd VG Name volgrp0 PV Size 115.04 GB / not usable 0 Allocatable yes PE Size (KByte) 4096 Total PE 29449 Free PE 29449 Allocated PE 0 PV UUID yIgADr-5HXP-lFZC-KtZq-onX2-vaNG-aFiLLI --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hda4 VG Name volgrp0 PV Size 111.17 GB / not usable 0 Allocatable yes PE Size (KByte) 4096 Total PE 28460 Free PE 28460 Allocated PE 0 PV UUID Lh7KKJ-OGDQ-Gv4A-4l7U-TRGS-mfma-R2LrPt Thanks for any help on this, Thomas _______________________________________________ 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/
