From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (ext-mx15.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.110.20]) by int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r2SJLlK1004746 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:21:47 -0400 Received: from mail.bmsi.com (mail.bmsi.com [68.106.146.44]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r2SJLjBs013510 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:21:46 -0400 Received: from sdg.bmsi.com (sdg.bmsi.com [192.168.9.34] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.bmsi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r2SJLUS7005296 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:21:31 -0400 Message-ID: <5154983A.5040000@bmsi.com> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:21:30 -0400 From: Stuart D Gathman MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <533CFD97-2715-4B1C-A8C5-02161911747D@googlemail.com> <51509ECB.4050901@bmsi.com> <244E0086-C561-4034-BF26-31DFC419B72F@googlemail.com> <5150B555.4010207@bmsi.com> <0FEAF33E-7395-4820-9732-AFE70D3B5877@googlemail.com> <5150C1F8.8090107@bmsi.com> <515351B4.8080804@bmsi.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------000401070304030806070906" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] vg disappeared after replacing disc in raid10 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: To: linux-lvm@redhat.com This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------000401070304030806070906 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 03/27/2013 07:39 PM, Bj=EF=BF=BDrn Nadrowski expounded in part: > I recovered my data. > Thanks for all your help. > The problem was in fact knoppix, but not because it had an older=20 > version of lvm2 or even lvm1. > > The problem was that the human-readable part I extracted from the=20 > beginning of the device contained invisible characters in front of the > 'vol0' label in the file 'volt.txt' . > These characters were not visible in terminal using 'cat', 'more', and=20 > they also did not appear in standard error as a consequence of the=20 > 'vgcfgrestore' command, as witnessed by the first line of the error: > Learn to use 'vim', at least for rudimentary use. It is the code editor=20 on live CDs because its minimal version is very small. The enhanced=20 version adds a macro language with a huge library. --------------000401070304030806070906 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

On 03/27/2013 07:39 PM, Björn Nadrowski expounded in part:

I recovered my data.
Thanks for all your help.

The problem was in fact knoppix, but not because it had an older version of lvm2 or even lvm1.

The problem was that the human-readable part I extracted from the beginning of the device contained invisible characters in front of the

'vol0' label in the file 'volt.txt' .

These characters were not visible in terminal using 'cat', 'more', and they also did not appear in standard error as a consequence of the 'vgcfgrestore' command, as witnessed by the first line of the error:

Learn to use 'vim', at least for rudimentary use. It is the code editor on live CDs because its minimal version is very small. The enhanced version adds a macro language with a huge library.
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