Hi Thiago, Here is a link to a RH doc that seems to match what you are describing. I have used this once before successfully but use at your own peril. :) http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Logical_Volume_Manager_Administration/mdatarecover.html Jon On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 21:31 +0000, Thiago Nunes wrote: > Please, some one have a hint to me? Have I made something wrong? > > I have an 80 GB hard drive (sda) who had a swap of 500 MB (sda1), an > /boot with 30 MB (sda2), a physical volume with 55 GB (sda3) and some > less important partitions after. > > I use gentoo and some days ago I needed some more free space on my > /var/tmp/paludis (/dev/vg/tmp-paludis) and, workaroundly, ran a > pvcreate on /dev/sda5, who had 5 GB, added it to my volume group and > resized the logical volume /dev/vg/tmp-paludis. > > Now I want to use my hard drive with a new scheme partition using the > sda3 until the end of the drive, with no more partitions after this. > To do that I took an auxiliary hard drive and booted my machine with > this drive (sdb) and using the System Rescue CD (v1.1.3) distribution. > > Then I created an sdb1 with 6GB, ran pvcreate on it and added it to my > volume group. So I ran pvmove on sda5 to move data to sdb1, since sda3 > had no more free space. After that I removed sda5 from my volume group > and deactivated the volume group to repartition my hard drive, > recreated the sda3 to occupies the drive until the end and ran > pvresize on sda3. Everything ran ok with no errors or warnings. > > Then I wanted to use my system again and I rebooted the PC to boot my > system. I would continue to pvmove the sdb1 after I got my system > running but at the boot got the message "Incorrect metadata area > header checksum" from vgchange -a y on initrd and never more could > access my volume group. > > Now I am on system rescue cd again and can't access my data. I don't > know what went wrong and don't know how to securely recover my volume > group. > > Someone have any hint to me? > > Here are the output of plenty useful commands: > http://200.19.254.116/~thiago/arquivos-lvm/ > > -- > thiago > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
