[linux-lvm] LVM metadata recovery

[Alex Matviychuk <alex@opensolutions.ws>]

Hello,

I've been searching the net and this mailing list for quite some time 
for a way to recover metadata without having access to any backups. I 
completely screwed up and forgot to backup or export my lvm settings 
when I reinstalled my operating system. Now I can see my volume group, 
but when I try to activate it I get:

  Volume group vg00 metadata is inconsistent
  Volume group for uuid not found: 
fhRVK5ZTwTOdTQpgF8oyAESEj8LYNRJy1P1jjdkNCV1WhYwfv9rxpnExXvNu13T6
  0 logical volume(s) in volume group "vg00" now active

If I run pvscan I get:
  PV /dev/hda3   VG vg00   lvm2 [128.54 GB / 0    free]
  PV /dev/hdd1   VG vg00   lvm2 [74.52 GB / 0    free]
  PV /dev/hdb1   VG vg00   lvm2 [186.30 GB / 29.36 GB free]
  Total: 3 [389.36 GB] / in use: 3 [389.36 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0   ]

and vgscan returns:
  Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
  Found volume group "vg00" using metadata type lvm2

What are my options if any?

Thanks for your time,
Alex Matviychuk

p.s. Here is some more debug output:

vgdisplay:
  --- Volume group ---
  VG Name               vg00
  System ID            
  Format                lvm2
  Metadata Areas        2
  Metadata Sequence No  13
  VG Access             read/write
  VG Status             resizable
  MAX LV                255
  Cur LV                1
  Open LV               0
  Max PV                255
  Cur PV                3
  Act PV                3
  VG Size               389.36 GB
  PE Size               4.00 MB
  Total PE              99676
  Alloc PE / Size       92160 / 360.00 GB
  Free  PE / Size       7516 / 29.36 GB
  VG UUID               fhRVK5-ZTwT-OdTQ-pgF8-oyAE-SEj8-LYNRJy

lvdisaply: 
--- Logical volume ---
  LV Name                /dev/vg00/home
  VG Name                vg00
  LV UUID                1P1jjd-kNCV-1WhY-wfv9-rxpn-ExXv-Nu13T6
  LV Write Access        read/write
  LV Status              NOT available
  LV Size                360.00 GB
  Current LE             92160
  Segments               3
  Allocation             contiguous
  Read ahead sectors     0


pvdisplay:
  --- Physical volume ---
  PV Name               /dev/hda3
  VG Name               vg00
  PV Size               128.54 GB / not usable 0  
  Allocatable           yes (but full)
  PE Size (KByte)       4096
  Total PE              32905
  Free PE               0
  Allocated PE          32905
  PV UUID               Ivsdja-iGRK-RJhK-CODr-XaEB-tlag-tEcVOv

  --- Physical volume ---
  PV Name               /dev/hdd1
  VG Name               vg00
  PV Size               74.52 GB / not usable 0  
  Allocatable           yes (but full)
  PE Size (KByte)       4096
  Total PE              19077
  Free PE               0
  Allocated PE          19077
  PV UUID               SY7qDO-YtlS-mZBw-5Pi2-53nF-vXOu-9mZI7t
  
  --- Physical volume ---
  PV Name               /dev/hdb1
  VG Name               vg00
  PV Size               186.30 GB / not usable 0  
  Allocatable           yes
  PE Size (KByte)       4096
  Total PE              47694
  Free PE               7516
  Allocated PE          40178
  PV UUID               5GBueV-Rmxu-thR6-jaoU-00Yg-49gs-A0slTr