From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m3U3pcc3029608 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:51:38 -0400 Received: from vms042pub.verizon.net (vms042pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.42]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m3U3pQuN029648 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:51:26 -0400 Received: from [192.168.2.102] ([72.91.189.24]) by vms042.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0K0400608DDBZN20@vms042.mailsrvcs.net> for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:51:12 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:51:11 -0400 From: Gerry Reno Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] F7 will not boot after running backup w/snapshot In-reply-to: <4817D97D.8060805@verizon.net> Message-id: <4817ECAF.4020806@verizon.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <4817C2FD.1010909@verizon.net> <4817D97D.8060805@verizon.net> 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: LVM general discussion and development So I got the vgreduce to work: reboot into rescue and issue it as the very first command: lvm vgreduce VolGroup00 --removemissing lvm vgdisplay -v VolGroup00 but I do see that my LogVol00 is missing (root disk) (this is what got corrupted) lvm lvchange -ay /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 vgdisplay now shows LogVol01 as available, yea! so now what about the missing LogVol00? what I want to try is replacing it at exactly the same extents with a new LogVol00 lvm lvcreate --extents 284 --name=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 VolGroup00 vgdisplay now shows both log vols with exactly the same size as originally before the problem. vgchange -ay so now I think that something needs to be done with uuid but I'm not familiar with how to do this. even if I have no access to data on the logvol, if I can mount it I can restore it. Anyone know how to make the new LogVol00 mount? Gerry