Hello,

A few days ago my system crashes and i’ve used LVM v 0.8 with one volume group(server), two physical volumes(hda6, hdb6) and one logical volume(dev/server/ftp)

Now i’ve installed Suse 7.2 with LVM v 0.9 Beta7, but i can’t mount the logical volume.

The error message is:

# mount /dev/server/ftp /mnt

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/server/ftp,

or too many mounted file systems

I get the following outputs from my system:

# vgscan

vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)

vgscan -- found active volume group "server"

vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created

vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume group

# pvscan

pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)

pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hda6" of VG "server" [37.78 GB / 0 free]

pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdb5" of VG "server" [41.92 GB / 0 free]

pvscan -- total: 2 [79.71 GB] / in use: 2 [79.71 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0]

# pvdisplay /dev/hda6

--- Physical volume ---

PV Name /dev/hda6

VG Name server

PV Size 37.78 GB / NOT usable 3.75 MB [LVM: 267 KB]

PV# 1

PV Status available

Allocatable yes (but full)

Cur LV 1

PE Size (KByte) 4096

Total PE 9671

Free PE 0

Allocated PE 9671

PV UUID /dev/h-da6

# pvdisplay /dev/hdb5

--- Physical volume ---

PV Name /dev/hdb5

VG Name server

PV Size 41.93 GB / NOT usable 3.45 MB [LVM: 271 KB]

PV# 2

PV Status available

Allocatable yes (but full)

Cur LV 1

PE Size (KByte) 4096

Total PE 10732

Free PE 0

Allocated PE 10732

PV UUID /dev/h-db5

# vgchange -ay

vgchange -- volume group "server" already active

# lvchange -ay /dev/server/ftp

lvchange -- logical volume "/dev/server/ftp" is already active

lvchange -- availability of logical volume "/dev/server/ftp" doesn't have to be changed

lvchange -- logical volume "/dev/server/ftp" didn't have to be changed

I’ve tried to follow the instructions of the mailing list article, i’ve found at http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/3500/2001/4/0/5655568/

But it doesn’t work, After vgchange –ay I get an error message, too, like

 
vgcfgrestore -- ERROR: different structure size stored in "/etc/lvmconf/export.conf"
than expected in file vg_cfgrestore.c [line 
> 120]
> vgcfgrestore -- ERROR "vg_cfgrestore(): read" restoring volume group "export"

I hope you can help me,

Thanks

Christoph