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From: "Bryn M. Reeves" <bmr@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Strange PV metadata issue
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Alex Brett wrote:
> For anybody interested - I managed to fix this by forcing the pvcreate
> with -ff, specifying only 1 metadata copy (not sure if I needed this bit
> or not) and then a vgcfgrestore did the trick - all seems happy now :)

The same situation/recovery steps were discussed on the list last week:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/2009-January/msg00014.html

Bryn.