Re: [linux-lvm] Re: Help! Upgrade 2.2.18 -> 2.4.4 killed a PV

["Heinz J. Mauelshagen" <Mauelshagen@sistina.com>]

AJ,

great! Thanks for the solution.

On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:25:15AM -0500, AJ Lewis wrote:
> Just an update on this:
> 
> Jens and I talked on IRC (irc.openprojects.net #lvm) about the problem.
> Turns out it was our old friend the missing UUID again.  We fixed it by
> manually adding the missing UUIDs in using a hexeditor on a copy of the
> metadata, then using dd to copy the metadata back onto the disk.  Nothing
> else seemed to work.

Likely because the backup contained the wrong uuid lists as well :-(

Heinz

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