Hi Richard, 1. What does/did vgcfgrestore tell you when you tried to use it? You said it did not work.... 2. Does debugreiserfs /dev/mapper/VGgroup-LVlist say that there is a filesystem there? (assuming you have not created a new filesystem there && also assuming you can perform "vgchange -a y VGgroup" ) _thanks Richard --- Richard Kampmann <Richard.Kampmann@freenet.de> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I'm a bit disappointed, because there was really no > feedback to my mail. > > The situation is a real problem for me - is there > anything missing? Or is > there no way to recover (can't believe that ...)? > Wrong way or place to ask? Then please tell me where > to go ... > > I tried to find a solution myself (also with help of > Google ...), but it did > not help me. > > Bye > > Richard Kampmann > > Am Dienstag, 28. November 2006 21:15 schrieb Richard > Kampmann: > > Hi everybody ... > > > > I recently had a lvm crash from which I now have > to recover. So now I need > > your help ... > > > > The system is a SUSE 10.1 system with actual > patches. > > # uname -rio > > 2.6.16.21-0.25-default i386 GNU/Linux > > # lvm version > > LVM version: 2.02.02 (2006-02-07) > > Library version: 1.02.03 (2006-02-08) > > Driver version: 4.5.0 > > # > > > > There was the unenlightened crash and before there > was a volume goup > > spanning two physical partitions (sda2, sdb2), > each on one physical disk > > (sda, sdb). The system froze (maybe in coincidence > with some > > snapshot-handling) and I had to press the reset > button. When rebooting lvm > > told me he could not open the volume group because > one pv was missing. The > > partition looked OK when checking the partition > table. I tried several > > things - and to do a vgcfgrestore but it did not > help. > > > > The volume group (system_vg) contained the root > partition, so I installed a > > new system on a third disc and tried to recover > the old volume group. > > Unfortunately when doing the pvcreate for the two > physical volumes I did > > NOT choose the "--zero n" switch. > > > > Fact is: I now have the volume group containing > two physical discs and two > > physical volumes with the correct PV UUIDs. But > the first sectors are > > zeroed, aren't they? > > > > Any way to recover the LVs of the old volume > group? A vgcfgrestore (YES, > > there was a vgcfgbackup before!) does not work ... > bad luck. > > > > Ah - and all logical volumes contain Reiser > Filesystems V 3.6 - they MUST > > still be there ... > > > > So - what could be my next steps? > > > > Bye > > > > Richard Kampmann > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.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/
