On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 09:49:44AM -0500, Roger Heflin wrote: > You will need a lvm backup file for the pvcreate --uuid I believe (there > may be some option to get around needing the backup file). > > That will put the header back on if you either have an lvm backup and/or > archive file, you might also need a vgcfgrestore afterwards depending on if > anything else is missing. > > I have never done it, but it looks possible to make a lvm backup file by > reading it directly off the disk with dd, so that you will have a file that > pvcreate is ok with, that is if there is no way to force it without a > backup file. > > But, this should get the pv back showing up with whatever sectors that you > successfully recovered. Thank you, Roger. I might be able to do that on the original machine, which won't boot at the moment because of this failure, but I have been using a working machine so far to use ddrestore etc. Yes, as you said, I was able to use dd to copy off the vgconfig data into a file. So you think that I might be able to use that as the reference in pvcreate? That makes some sense. I started this out asking ( but not clearly ) whether the data on the disk appeared to be in the correct place and whether what was there was correct, but I think that I answered that for myself with the comparison to the working PV partition. Thanks again, Brian _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
