I have an idea of what is going on...but no really how to correct it once and for all. The PV, VG, LV were created under Mandrake 10.0, in the days of LVM1. Then an upgrade install was done, to take it to Mandriva 2006.0, and thus the LVM1 was converted to LVM2 in the process. When i first created the LVM devices...i used whole device, sdb,sdc & sdd...even though there were partitions sdb1, sdc1 and sdd1 which comprise of whole disk. LVM1 it seems did not have an issue. Since i was adding disks, i believe it is the first time that i actually ran pvscan....which effectively dumped /etc/lvm/.cache and created a new one. Under new one, since sdb1,sdc1 &sdd1 were of type LVM...it saw those, but not sdb, sdc and sdd.....which it says are unknown devices. Is there any way to correct it "online"...ie. without moving all data out, wipe out all info, rebuild the PVs, VG & LV? As a backup plan, i am mounting the whole devices, sdb, sdc & sdd as loop device using losetup...and that seems to work...though it is manual process.... _thanks Rick --- Richard Mollel <unixtipz@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Mandriva 2006.0 > Kernel 2.6.12-24 > lvm2-2.01.09-1mdk > > LVM installed on whole devices, /dev/sdb, sdc and > sdd. > It has worked for over 2 years. Not sure if > something > in Mandriva regular update changed anything > related....but now, upon reboot, the whole devices > are > seen as PV's. I have to run losetup (set them up as > loop devices basically) then > vgscan,pvscan,lvmdiskscan > can see them, and i can mount my VG. What actually > controls pvscan/vgscan commands? > > /dev/sdb1: No label detected > /dev/sdc1: No label detected > /dev/sdd1: No label detected > Locking /var/lock/lvm/V_ASSIM_VG RB > Finding volume group "ASSIM_VG" > /dev/loop0: lvm2 label detected > /dev/loop1: lvm2 label detected > /dev/loop2: lvm2 label detected > > _Thanks > > Richard > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Cheap talk? > Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call > rates. > http://voice.yahoo.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/ > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sponsored Link Mortgage rates near 39yr lows. $510k for $1,698/mo. Calculate new payment! www.LowerMyBills.com/lre _______________________________________________ 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/
