From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Erick Calder" Message-ID: <00a401c18504$33a10ac0$0300000a@pacbell.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Subject: [linux-lvm] catch-22 Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Fri Dec 14 19:03:02 2001 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com a drive part of a volume crashed on me... I've looked through the man pages and HOWTO but find no happiness... help! the volume used to be called LVM (/dev/LVM) and had /dev/hda3 and /dev/hdc... hdc crashed and I've replaced it with an identical drive. I did a "pvcreate /dev/hdc" after installation but cannot seem to add it to the volume: # vgextend LVM /dev/hdc vgextend -- volume group "LVM" doesn't exist and if I try to create it: # vgcreate LVM /dev/hdc vgcreate -- volume group directory or file already exists vgcreate -- please choose a different name I look in: # ls /dev/LVM total 104 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 26 12:54 ./ drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 98304 Dec 13 17:46 ../ crw-r----- 1 root disk 109, 0 Oct 26 12:54 group brw-rw---- 1 root disk 58, 0 Oct 26 12:54 mp3z # ls /proc/lvm/VGs total 0 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Dec 14 17:52 ./ dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Dec 14 17:52 ../ what is the correct procedure to follow? shall I just blow away the /dev/LVM directory and do a "pvcreate -ff /dev/hda3"? 1k thx - e