Ok I'm in origin state no. I will sleep now and tomorow I will study my problem. Many thanks for your help. Unluckly I can't offer to you a big beer ;-) Best regards Martial On Thursday 23 November 2006 00:10, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > Martial Paupe wrote: > > Hello Bryn, > > > > On Wednesday 22 November 2006 23:29, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > > I think that you speak about LVM2. I use RHES 3.5 and the version of lvm > > are lvm-1.0.8-14. > > Yes, I was referring to LVM2. LVM1 doesn't have the --removemissing flag > to vgreduce. > > By default LVM1 should make a backup of the volume group metadata before > the vgextend command adds a new PV- it's worth checking /etc/lvmconf to > see if you can restore the old metadata. > > Use vgcfgrestore -f <file> -n <vgname> -ll to see the physical & logical > volumes in the backups and restore from the last good one (only the > metadata is restored - data in the LVs remains unchanged). > > See the man page for vgcfgbackup/vgcfgrestore for more details. > > Regards, > > Bryn. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ -- Martial Paupe Kudelski Group [D] +41 21 732 04 55 [E] martial.paupe<AT>nagra.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/