From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "T. Pawlak" MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <3D78E549.8408.39D5AA@localhost> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Subject: [linux-lvm] Please Help, vgscan finds too much LEs 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: Fri Sep 6 10:27:01 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com 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?!? 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