echo 1 > /sys/block/sde/device/delete #this is wrong from my point of view, you need first try to remove the disk from lvm vgreduce -ff vgPecDisk2 /dev/sde #doesn't allow me to remove vgreduce --removemissing vgPecDisk2 #doesn't allow me to remove vgreduce --removemissing --force vgPecDisk2 #works, alerts me about rimage and rmeta LVS 1: remove the failed device physically not from lvm and insert the new device 2: pvcreate --uuid "FmGRh3-zhok-iVI8-7qTD-S5BI-MAEN-NYM5Sk" --restorefile /etc/lvm/archive/VG_00050.vg /dev/sdh1 #to create the pv with OLD UUID of remove disk 3: now you can restore the vg metadata https://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Cluster_Logical_Volume_Manager/mdatarecover.html 2015-03-09 12:21 GMT+01:00 Libor Klepáč <libor.klepac@bcom.cz>: > Hello, > > web have 4x3TB disks in LVM for backups and I setup per customer/per "task" > LV type raid5 on it. > > Last week, smartd started to alarm us, that one of the disk will soon go > away. > > So we shut down the computer, replaced disk and then i used vgcfgrestore on > new disk to restore metadata. > > Result was, that some LVs came up with damaged filesystem, some didn't came > up at all with messages like (one of rimage and rmeta was "wrong", when i > used KVPM util, it was type "virtual" > > ---- > > [123995.826650] mdX: bitmap initialized from disk: read 4 pages, set 1 of > 98312 bits > > [124071.037501] device-mapper: raid: Failed to read superblock of device at > position 2 > > [124071.055473] device-mapper: raid: New device injected into existing array > without 'rebuild' parameter specified > > [124071.055969] device-mapper: table: 253:83: raid: Unable to assemble > array: Invalid superblocks > > [124071.056432] device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table > > ---- > > After that, i tried several combinations of > > lvconvert --repair > > and > > lvchange -ay --resync > > > > Without success. So i saved some data and than created new empty LV's and > started backups from scratch. > > > > Today, smartd alerted on another disk. > > So how can i safely remove disk from VG? > > I tried to simulate it on VM > > > > echo 1 > /sys/block/sde/device/delete > > vgreduce -ff vgPecDisk2 /dev/sde #doesn't allow me to remove > > vgreduce --removemissing vgPecDisk2 #doesn't allow me to remove > > vgreduce --removemissing --force vgPecDisk2 #works, alerts me about rimage > and rmeta LVS > > > > vgchange -ay vgPecDisk2 #works but LV isn't active, only rimage and rmeta LV > show up. > > > > So how to safely remove soon-to-be-bad-drive and insert new drive to array? > > Server has no more physical space for new drive, so we cannot use pvmove. > > > > Server is debian wheezy, but kernel is 2.6.14. > > Lvm is in version 2.02.95-8 , but i have another copy i use for raid > operations, which is in version 2.02.104 > > > > With regards > > Libor > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ -- esta es mi vida e me la vivo hasta que dios quiera _______________________________________________ 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/
