Giuseppe> after a reboot after a maintenance power interruption of a Giuseppe> few hours, one of my LVs is not coming back (Ubuntu Giuseppe> 18.04). The situation I am at is the following: Ouch, this isn't fun. Giuseppe> - the physical disk is an iSCSI and it is seen by the kernel as /dev/sdc Does it have any partitions on it? Is this the only iSCSI volume on the system? Giuseppe> - lvmdiskscan -v sees the PV on /dev/sdc Giuseppe> /dev/sdc [ 72.76 TiB] LVM physical volume Can you show the full details of all your LVMs please? Do any of the others have a conflict with this device? Giuseppe> - blkid returns the UUID that I can also find in the LVM configuration Giuseppe> /dev/sdc: UUID="fvUXXf-pVOF-EPnn-c8eg-tZ5S-iMVW-wsSFDy" TYPE="LVM2_member" That's good. What about if you do: pvchange -v /dev/sdc what happens then? Giuseppe> - this entry lacks a PARTUUID entry that other LVs on the Giuseppe> system have. Is this a clue? I could not quite connect this Giuseppe> piece of info with anything. Can you show the full output and the differences? Giuseppe> - pvscan does not report /dev/sdc Not good. Giuseppe> - pvdisplay does not seem to know about this PV Giuseppe> pvdisplay /dev/sdc Giuseppe> Failed to find physical volume "/dev/sdc" Not good either. How about the 'pvchange' and/or 'vgchange -ay' as well? Maybe the iSCSI LUN is getting mapped after all the rest of the LVM setup happens... Giuseppe> Reading man pages and searching the web does not really Giuseppe> bring me closer to understanding what is happening. This Giuseppe> machine has its OS on LVs and those have all come back, and Giuseppe> of course it is not the first time that I reboot. Probably I Giuseppe> lack the correct terms to describe the problem so that I can Giuseppe> find a solution. Anybody here on this list who can point me Giuseppe> in the right direction? By any chance did you put a partition table on there? What system is the iSCSI LUN being exported from? Can you run the following iscsiadm command and share the details? iscsiadm --mode discoverydb --type sendtargets --portal <IP> --discover where <IP> is the address of the iSCSI server you're mounting from. Did that server go down as well? Good luck! John _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/