From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] vgcfgrestore error ! Message-ID: <20011120121947.B18529@sistina.com> References: <3BF8E5DE.ABAEB618@LTUtech.com> <20011119125632.A12388@sistina.com> <3BF8F8BF.3FE1491C@LTUtech.com> <20011119151746.A13040@sistina.com> <3BF923C3.A2060FDD@LTUtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3BF923C3.A2060FDD@LTUtech.com>; from Igor.Dumaire@LTUtech.com on Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 04:22:43PM +0100 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: Tue Nov 20 05:25:02 2001 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 04:22:43PM +0100, Igor Dumaire wrote: > > > > I overlooked the 'active VG' message vgcfgrestore is displaying. > > Because 'vgchange -an lvm1' wont't work in your situation I am afraid you need > > to reboot before being able to run vgcfgrestore successfully. > > > After the reboot vgcfgrestore doesn't work ! > > # vgchange -an lvm1 > vgchange -- volume group "lvm1" does not exist > > # vgcfgrestore -n lvm1 /dev/hde1 > vgcfgrestore -- can't restore part of active volume group "lvm1" Strange. Please provide "vgdisplay -v;pvscan;lvmdiskscan" and "pvdata -PP" for all PVs belonging to the missing VG. Thanks, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- > > What do I do ? > > Regards, > -- > Igor Dumaire > > www.LTUtech.com - Making Sense of Visual Content > ------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-