From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <3AE6F9A7.55D45D84@suse.de> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 18:21:59 +0200 From: Fabian.Herschel@suse.de MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] vgscan does not found my VG, but pvscan does... References: <200104251553.f3PFr1j7031199@webber.adilger.int> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Andreas Dilger wrote: > > Fabian Herschel writes: > > I tried some things last night... > > - First I have saved the heder blocks (VGDA) with dd (dd if=/dev/sda1 \ > > of=/root/HEAD_sda1 count=4596 bs=512) > > - Then I called a vgcfgrestore -n sysvg /dev/sda1. > > - Now pvscan tells me both PVs are in the VG sysvg. > > - "vgchange -ay sysvg" activated the VG and the LVs could me mounted > > > > BUT > > - vgscan does NOT find the sysvg!!! > > - After a reboot the sysvg is not available. > > - Every time I have to call a vgcfgrestore :(( > > Can you post "pvdata -PPU " for each PV in the VG? Also, can you > look through "vgscan -v -d" output to see why it is not finding all of > the PVs it wants? This sounds like the old UUID problem. Yes I will post that. I have to collect this data at home :)). I also will have a look up, if the tips about the UUID problem fit to my problem /reading the several pvdata cmd outs. Thanks, Fabian > > Cheers, Andreas > -- > Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, > \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" > http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm -- Fabian Herschel SuSE Linux Solutions AG Tel: +49-6196-50951-23 Mergenthalerallee 45-47 Fax: +49-6196-409-607 D-65760 Eschborn mailto: Fabian.Herschel@suse.de http://www.suse.de