From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <39D75B83.1555FED5@attglobal.net> Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 11:42:59 -0400 From: Les Hazelton MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] need help to recover my system References: <39D6A94C.3C40B982@attglobal.net> <20001001100151.A3571@srv.t-online.de> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-lvm Errors-To: owner-linux-lvm List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Mauelshagen@Sistina.com Cc: linux-lvm@msede.com My kernel had LVM support compiled in, not as a module. I had created an initrd but may have not done that correctly. I think the real problem was that the grub loader was installed on the root "/" partition and not the "/boot" partition. I had booted the new configuration several times without problem until I deleted the original "/" partition. That's when I realized where the grub loader was installed. When I use linux fdisk I see the entry for hdc5 as Linux LVM (85) and if I do "cat /proc/partitions" there is an entry for /dev/hdc5. If, while running my test system with kernel 2.4.0, I run the pvcreate command for /dev/hdc5 will that destroy the existing PV, VG, LVM content that is currently their? "Heinz J. Mauelshagen" wrote: > On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 11:02:36PM -0400, Les Hazelton wrote: > > I had a Mandrake 7.1 system running the 2.2.17 kernel with LVM and > > reiserfs patches applied. I have a 15Gb partition on /dev/hdc5 which > > was one large PV. It supports one VG which has the logical volumes for > > /usr, /home, /var, etc... Everything except /boot and / which were on > > the hda drive as plain ext2 file systems. > > > > I decided to move the root partition "/" to a logical volume on hdc5 and > > all was going well until I deleted it from the ext2 system on hda6. > > How did you do that? > Did you create an inital ram disk to load the lvm driver and activate > the volume group? > Otherwise you can't access your volume group(s) anyway from the /boot > booted kernel. > > > So > > now I have a perfectly good Linux system contained on the hdc5 PV which > > I can't access. > > > > I have test system (Mandrake 7.2-b) on the hda drive. It has the > > 2.4.0-0.22 kernel distributed my Mandrake and I have been attempting to > > recover using that system. The problem is I keep getting these errors: > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) > > pvscan -- ERROR "pv_read_all_pv(): lvm_dir_cache" reading physical > > volumes > > This error means, that no (compatible) entries could be found either > in /proc/partitions or, if /proc/partitions doesn't exist, in /dev. > > Please check that these sources are valid on your Mandrake 7.2-b test system > and retry. > > > > > [root@farpt1 /root]# vgscan -v > > vgscan -- removing "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" > > vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) > > vgscan -- no volume groups found > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > I was going to try a pvcreate for /dev/hdc5 but thought it would wipe > > the partition clean and I don't want to start over if there is *any* > > hope of recovering it. > > > > Please, if anyone knows a way to recover this volume, I would be > > extremely grateful for the help. > > > > Les Hazelton > > -- > > Regards, > Heinz -- The LVM guy -- > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. > Senior Consultant/Developer Bartningstr. 12 > 64289 Darmstadt > Germany > Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 6151 7103 86 > FAX 7103 96 > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Les Hazelton