From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] What command do I use to make a PV active? From: Greg Freemyer In-Reply-To: <20030704134905.A28295@sistina.com> References: <20030703165707.LXFV15998.imf16aec.bellsouth.net@tiger2> <20030704134905.A28295@sistina.com> Message-Id: <1057592224.10033.30.camel@david.internal.NorcrossGroup.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Mon Jul 7 10:29:01 2003 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 07:49, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote: > On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:05:43PM -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote: > > > > Somehow I inactived a PV > > Hmm, there's no direct (in)activation of PVs. > A bit strange, that both are in diffrent states (they should be either inactive > in case the VG is or both active in case the VG got activated). This is a lab/test machine. I have a couple of others that have a similar LVM layout, and all of them have hot-swap drives. I likely moved a drive around at the wrong time. > > > > > # pvscan > > pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) > > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sda3" of VG "TruStore-Data" [53.63 GB / 48.63 GB free] > > pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/sdb1" of VG "TruStore-Data" [74.54 GB / 13.54 GB free] > > pvscan -- total: 2 [128.19 GB] / in use: 2 [128.19 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0] > > > > What command do I use to make it active? > > If the VG "TruStore-Data" is inactive, "vgchange -ay TruStore-Data" should turn > /dev/sda3 active as well. It is already active, and I just tried a reboot. sda3 is still inactive. > > Is "TruStore-Data" accessable fine (LVs ok) ? I have 3 LVs on sdb1, they are working fine. I have a copy of my Linux Distro CDs and spare space for sdb1 snapshots on sda3. They are not working. Obviously I can recreated the CD copies, but I prefer not to do this. Is there something else I can try? FYI: None of this data is very important, so I won't complain too loud if you ask me to do something and it ends up blowing everything away. Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer