From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Please Help, vgscan finds too much LEs Message-ID: <20020909125734.C15934@sistina.com> References: <3D78E549.8408.39D5AA@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3D78E549.8408.39D5AA@localhost>; from thorsten.pawlak@gmx.net on Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 05:26:33PM +0200 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: Mon Sep 9 06:26:22 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 05:26:33PM +0200, T. Pawlak wrote: > Hi, > > this is the second email for my problem. Unfortunately i haven't got an answer to my > first one. So i'm posting again. > > After i've pvreduce my VG vgscan can't activate it. here is the output: > > vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) > vgscan -- only found 28926 of 28672 LEs for LV /dev/data/home (0) > vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): allocated LE of LV" can't get data of > volume group "data" from physical volume(s) > vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created > vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume > group > > i don't know what i can do, it is very funny problem because 28926 LEs are found of > and only 28672 sems to be needed, where are the 254 LEs from?!? That looks really odd :( Could you send me the "dd bs=1k count=4k" of all PVs tar'ed+bzip2'ed to mge@sistina.com and the /etc/lvmconf/data* archives as well, please. > > i've made a pvdata -Eva from all 5 PEs, the file is about 1mb of size, so dave > everyones bandwidth i put it here: http://www.pawlak-world.de/pvdata > > if more infos of my configuration is needed please conact me! > > i'm using LVM v1.0.5 with kernel patch (i upgraded from 1.0.3 before i made the > pvreduce) > > I hope someone can help me now! It would be very nice if i can reconstruct my data, > although i have a backup, but only of 60gb of the whole 200gb and it would be nice to > access the rest again somehow! > > bye Thorsten > > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** 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 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-