From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j4BDICO16774 for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 09:18:12 -0400 Received: from sophos2.lnf.infn.it (sophos2.lnf.infn.it [193.206.84.202]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j4BDIBeJ031537 for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 09:18:11 -0400 Message-ID: <42820786.70401@lnf.infn.it> Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 15:24:22 +0200 From: Claudio Soprano MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [linux-lvm] LVM 1.0.8 problems with vgscan ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): allocated LE of LV" Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-lvm@redhat.com Hi all, i'm not subscribed to the mailing list, but i searched on it to find a solution to my problem I had (up to 1 hour ago) a Redhat 7.3 machine kernel 2.4.20 with LVM 1.0.8 and data disks in a lvm environment 1,5 TB of datas. I didn't backup nothing about the LVM configuration (i know it is an error) I had to reinstall the OS to a new version, so i did shutdown -r now installated Scientific Linux 3.0.4 that has inside the LVM 1.0.8 rpm revision 9 so now when i run vgscan it tells me >vgscan vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) vgscan -- only found 0 of 1600 LEs for LV /dev/flat00_exp_local/exp_software (0) vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): allocated LE of LV" can't get data of volume group "flat00_exp_local" 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 if i run pvscan >pvscanpvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/cciss/c2d0" is associated to unknown VG "flat00_exp_local" (run vgscan) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/cciss/c1d0" is associated to unknown VG "flat00_exp_local" (run vgscan) pvscan -- total: 2 [44.05 MB] / in use: 2 [44.05 MB] / in no VG: 0 [0] if i run pvdata >pvdata /dev/cciss/c2d0PV Name /dev/cciss/c2d0 --- NEW Physical volume --- VG Name flat00_exp_local PV Size 17.12 MB [35056 secs] PV# 2 PV Status available Allocatable NO Cur LV 0 PE Size (KByte) 0 Total PE 0 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 0 PV UUID MqVhs1-qzZm-twiY-6U9Q-mC1S-JqO1-SBFurI --- Volume group --- VG Name VG Access read/write VG Status NOT available/resizable VG # 0 MAX LV 256 Cur LV 3 Open LV 0 MAX LV Size 2 TB Max PV 256 Cur PV 2 Act PV 2 VG Size 1.47 TB PE Size 32 MB Total PE 48125 Alloc PE / Size 48125 / 1.47 TB Free PE / Size 0 / 0 VG UUID NZunhD-g2fK-5Sl4-nRWN-i2jQ-IBnw-477uDP --- List of logical volumes --- pvdata -- logical volume "/dev/flat00_exp_local/exp_software" at offset 0 pvdata -- logical volume "/dev/flat00_exp_local/local" at offset 1 pvdata -- logical volume "/dev/flat00_exp_local/flatfiles_00" at offset 2pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 3 is empty pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 4 is empty pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 5 is empty pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 6 is empty pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 7 is empty pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 8 is empty pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 9 is empty pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 10 is empty ....... pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 255 is empty --- List of physical volume UUIDs --- 001: wutXUY-gDbu-d7Ma-hgQ3-7qfZ-Q2cM-dx5UXD 002: MqVhs1-qzZm-twiY-6U9Q-mC1S-JqO1-SBFurI and >pvdata /dev/cciss/c1d0 --- NEW Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/cciss/c1d0 VG Name flat00_exp_local PV Size 26.93 MB [55152 secs] PV# 1 PV Status available Allocatable NO Cur LV 0 PE Size (KByte) 0 Total PE 0 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 0 PV UUID wutXUY-gDbu-d7Ma-hgQ3-7qfZ-Q2cM-dx5UXD --- Volume group --- VG Name VG Access read/write VG Status NOT available/resizable VG # 0 MAX LV 256 Cur LV 3 Open LV 0 MAX LV Size 2 TB Max PV 256 Cur PV 2 Act PV 2 VG Size 1.47 TB PE Size 32 MB Total PE 48125 Alloc PE / Size 48125 / 1.47 TB Free PE / Size 0 / 0 VG UUID NZunhD-g2fK-5Sl4-nRWN-i2jQ-IBnw-477uDP --- List of logical volumes --- pvdata -- logical volume "/dev/flat00_exp_local/exp_software" at offset 0 pvdata -- logical volume "/dev/flat00_exp_local/local" at offset 1 pvdata -- logical volume "/dev/flat00_exp_local/flatfiles_00" at offset 2 pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 4 is empty pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 5 is empty pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 6 is empty pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 7 is empty pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 8 is empty pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 9 is empty pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 10 is empty ....... pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 255 is empty --- List of physical volume UUIDs --- 001: wutXUY-gDbu-d7Ma-hgQ3-7qfZ-Q2cM-dx5UXD 002: MqVhs1-qzZm-twiY-6U9Q-mC1S-JqO1-SBFurI My question is this Is There a way to recover all the datas on the 3 Logical Volumes ? If i try with vgcfgrestore it doesn't work because it try to look in /etc/lvmtab.d/ that is empty (i reinstalled the OS) Any hint to recover the lvmtab in someway or to create one with the info needed ? Thanks for any suggestion or hint Claudio Soprano (please answer to my email address too, thanks in advance)