2008/9/12 Jaroslav Stava <jstava@redhat.com>: > > Check dmraid. Twice. > > If *scan can't find a lvm pv, than there is something wrong. > (unless you are filtering out /dev/dm* - check filter= in lvm.conf) > > Did you (or the Debian installation) change the partition layout? > Where did you install the system to? I assume not to the old > "lvroot" logical volume. > > Partition type (fdisk) means quite nothing. > If the device/partition is a lvm PV, then there should be an lvm > label at the beginning. That's what vgscan is looking for (see -vvv). > If there is no label at the beginning, then: > - we are looking at the wrong place - partition layout changed or > perhaps dmraid changed it's mapping > - we are looking at the correct place, but the label is not there > > You could try looking for the label at other places - man pvck. > > Either way provide some info: > "lvmdump -m -a" can automate that > or at least post dmsetup table, vgscan -vvv > dmraid information > > Regards, > Jaroslav Stava > Sorry, I made a terrible mistake! After your suggestions I've dumped (using dd) some first sectors of /dev/dm-6 to check what is in header and I noticed LUKS label. I totally forgot that whole partition was encrypted (it used to be unlocked by external keyfile). So I unlocked partition first and after that activated LVM. All volumes are here, healthy and intact. About "lvroot" volume - it was never in use. I planned to install other distribution here, but I never did. Root filesystem is on non-lvm partition. Again sorry for this stupid mistake and thank you for your help. -- Regards, Grzegorz R. _______________________________________________ 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/
