From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3BF8F8BF.3FE1491C@LTUtech.com> From: Igor Dumaire MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] vgcfgrestore error ! References: <3BF8E5DE.ABAEB618@LTUtech.com> <20011119125632.A12388@sistina.com> 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: Date: Mon Nov 19 06:17:02 2001 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com > you need to figure out, which Physical Volumes (PVs) belong to your VG lvm1 > by running 'vgcfgrestore -ll -n lvm1'. Please check for the PV list at > the end of the output. > Then restore the LVM metadata by running 'vgcfgrestore -n lvm1 /dev/hdWhatever` > on every of those. # vgcfgrestore -n lvm1 /dev/hde1 vgcfgrestore -- can't restore part of active volume group "lvm1" vgcfgrestore [-d|--debug] [-f|--file VGConfPath] [-l[l]|--list [--list]] [-n|--name VolumeGroupName] [-h|--help] [-o|--oldpath OldPhysicalVolumePath] [-t|--test] [-v|--verbose] [--version] [PhysicalVolumePath] # vgcfgrestore -n lvm1 /dev/hdf1 vgcfgrestore -- can't restore part of active volume group "lvm1" vgcfgrestore [-d|--debug] [-f|--file VGConfPath] [-l[l]|--list [--list]] [-n|--name VolumeGroupName] [-h|--help] [-o|--oldpath OldPhysicalVolumePath] [-t|--test] [-v|--verbose] [--version] [PhysicalVolumePath] # vgcfgrestore -n lvm1 /dev/hdc1 vgcfgrestore -- can't restore part of active volume group "lvm1" vgcfgrestore [-d|--debug] [-f|--file VGConfPath] [-l[l]|--list [--list]] [-n|--name VolumeGroupName] [-h|--help] [-o|--oldpath OldPhysicalVolumePath] [-t|--test] [-v|--verbose] [--version] [PhysicalVolumePath] What's about "PV Status NOT available" in vgcfgrestore -ll -n lvm1 message ?! --- Volume group --- VG Name lvm1 VG Access read/write VG Status NOT available/resizable VG # 0 MAX LV 255 Cur LV 1 Open LV 0 MAX LV Size 255.99 GB Max PV 255 Cur PV 3 Act PV 3 VG Size 171.79 GB PE Size 4.00 MB Total PE 43977 Alloc PE / Size 43776 / 171.00 GB Free PE / Size 201 / 804.00 MB VG UUID iwDjRO-WlFd-GZUw-DU20-GP8C-mMwV-MkzCeR --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/lvm1/Data VG Name lvm1 LV Write Access read/write LV Status available LV # 1 # open 0 LV Size 171.00 GB Current LE 43776 Allocated LE 43776 Allocation next free Read ahead sectors 120 Block device 58:0 --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hde1 VG Name lvm1 PV Size 57.27 GB / NOT usable 8.11 MB [LVM: 181.00 KB] PV# 1 PV Status NOT available Allocatable yes (but full) Cur LV 1 PE Size (KByte) 4096 Total PE 14659 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 14659 PV UUID kbvz5r-hJlN-WU9Q-7xwj-alJ6-8UfO-jopMFc --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hdf1 VG Name lvm1 PV Size 57.27 GB / NOT usable 8.11 MB [LVM: 181.00 KB] PV# 2 PV Status NOT available Allocatable yes (but full) Cur LV 1 PE Size (KByte) 4096 Total PE 14659 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 14659 PV UUID weQY7t-7II0-7t74-hVI5-Dj8Y-CV0O-8CyGqh --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hdc1 VG Name lvm1 PV Size 57.27 GB / NOT usable 8.11 MB [LVM: 181.00 KB] PV# 3 PV Status available Allocatable yes Cur LV 1 PE Size (KByte) 4096 Total PE 14659 Free PE 201 Allocated PE 14458 PV UUID BFvA7F-ccvF-e5r1-3QH7-02JG-dH4r-AOYF64 -- Igor Dumaire www.LTUtech.com - Making Sense of Visual Content ------------------------------------------------