On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 03:55 +0000, Thiago Nunes wrote: > Hi guys. > > Excuse my english, I'm from Brazil. > > Last day I pvresized the pv who had my vg and after a reboot I > couldn't activate my vg anymore. I got the message "Incorrect metadata > area header checksum". > > The whole history: > > My HD had a sda3 pv that had my whole vg. It's had around 55GB. Some > days ago, because of an emergency situation, I transformed a 6GB > partition (sda5) into an LVM pv and added it to the vg. Now to > organize my HD I liberated space after sda5 and wanted to expand my > sda3 to the end of my 80GB disk. > > Then I took an auxiliar hard drive, booted my machine with system > rescue cd, created a small sdb1 in the begining to temporary store the > contents of sda5, pvcreated sdb1, "vgextend vg /dev/sdb1" and > "pvmove /dev/sda5". Did you do a pvmove /dev/sda5 or pvmove /dev/sda5 /dev/sdb1? Jon _______________________________________________ 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/
