From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3E42D82B.3070003@stamppot.demon.nl> From: Sander Alberink MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Severe problem: data lost while adding a partition References: <3E3C62E4.7030409@home.nl> <20030203113148.B8501@sistina.com> In-Reply-To: <20030203113148.B8501@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: Thu Feb 6 15:49:01 2003 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Heinz, Thanks for your reply, but I have some more questions.... >can you tell what you mean with >'...something went horribly wron during install...' ? > >Any particular messages which can help analyzing this ? > > Well, actually no real error messages, just a GUI installer that didn't do what I expected it to do. However, the LVM was hosed already at the time I realized something was wrong >If you don't have any, take your most recent LVM metedata from the archive >(/etc/lvconf/ ; you've got a backup, right ?), figure out disks used as PVs >with "vgcfgrestore -ll ..." and run "pvcreate -ff ..." and vgcfgresto >on all of them. The archive you use shall _not_ include the recently added >disk. > Well, guess what? The LVM used in Mandrake doesn't make a backup copy. And of course I hadn't executed it myself.... So as such I cannot restore the exact configuration. Is pvcreate still the way to go then? Please advice! Best regards, Sander > >Regards, >Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- > > >On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 01:14:28AM +0100, Sander Alberink wrote: > > >>Hello all, >> >>I write to you with a rather grave problem. I have a small LVM setup at >>home, consisting of 4 partitions. These were created by the Mandrake 8.2 >> installation system. After deciding to upgrade the system to Mandrake >>9.0, I found out that I had another partition lying around which was >>also prepared for LVM use. I had meant for that disc to use later on in >> a different scheme for my /usr partition but never got around to do it. >>However, during installation I decided to add it to the LVM. The idea >>was that I would extend the FS later (of course, I was not going to >>involve this LVM setup in the rest of the installation, I would do all >>that manually.) >> >>But as you probably guessed, something went horribly wrong during >>install time and my LVM setup is properly hosed. I wanted to re-create >>the setup, but alas: I forgot which was the disk that I added. >> >>The name of the LV (there was only 1) was home, the disks involved were >>/dev/hda1, /dev/hda[4-6]. >> >>Output of pvscan: >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) >>pvscan -- walking through all physical volumes found >>pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1" is >>associated to an unknown VG (run vgscan) >>pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4" is >>associated to an unknown VG (run vgscan) >>pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5" is >>associated to an unknown VG (run vgscan) >>pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6" is >>associated to an unknown VG (run vgscan) >>pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7" is >>associated to an unknown VG (run vgscan) >>pvscan -- total: 5 [1.97 GB] / in use: 5 [1.97 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0] >> >>----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>output of vgscan: >>----------------------------------------------------------------------- >>vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) >>vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created >>vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume >>group >> >>----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>output of pvdisplay /dev/hda1 (this partition belonged to the LV for sure) >>----------------------------------------------------------------------- >>pvdisplay -- getting physical volume size >>--- Physical volume --- >>PV Name /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 >>VG Name home >>PV Size 399.62 MB / NOT usable 3.62 MB [LVM: 121.00 KB] >>PV# 1 >>PV Status NOT available >>Allocatable yes (but full) >>Cur LV 1 >>PE Size (KByte) 4096 >>Total PE 99 >>Free PE 0 >>Allocated PE 99 >>PV UUID NCf9U6-nqVy-zn3K-upFo-S0PB-SFqb-o2ERjs >>----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>If you need any further information, please let me know! >>I do hope you can help me with this, since I stand to loose a lot of >>personal data, of which exists no backup (of course, you guys probably >>hear this all the time). >> >>Best regards, >> >>Sander Alberink >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>linux-lvm mailing list >>linux-lvm@sistina.com >>http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm >>read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ >> >> > >*** 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 >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > >_______________________________________________ >linux-lvm mailing list >linux-lvm@sistina.com >http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm >read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ > >