From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lacrosse.corp.redhat.com (lacrosse.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.154]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l1QEhEZq024834 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:43:14 -0500 Received: from vpn-14-248.rdu.redhat.com (vpn-14-248.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.14.248]) by lacrosse.corp.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.11.6) with ESMTP id l1QEhDsM005312 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:43:13 -0500 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Restoring LVM configuration From: Dave Wysochanski In-Reply-To: <200702201824.l1KIO73V001649@www-webmail1.magma.ca> References: <200702201824.l1KIO73V001649@www-webmail1.magma.ca> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:43:13 -0500 Message-Id: <1172500994.4170.6.camel@linux-cxyg.rtp.netapp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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" To: LVM general discussion and development On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 13:24 -0500, Reid wrote: > Hi, > > Through a number of steps in an attempt to upgrade my server I ended up losing the > lvm.conf configuration file and my backup of it. > > Part of the problem occured when I moved the disks from one controller to another on my > server. For some reason the partition information was lost. This was recovered without > too many troubles leaving me with a boot (ext2) and lvm2 partitions on one drive and a > lvm2 partition on the other. > > I noticed on the LVM how-to that you might be able to recreate the configuration using > pvcreate after looking at /etc/lvm/archive/VolumeGroupName_XXXXX.vg but I am unable to in > this case because the root file system was part of the LVM itself. (If I could mount it > to find out the configuration then I wouldn't be having such a problem!) > > Ideally I would like to be able to create a configuration using Knoppix so that I could > mount the drives and write it onto them. > > The next best thing for me would be to find some way to get the files off of the drives > and onto a spare drive (basically recreate my backup) without losing file names/directory > structure. > Are you still in need of help? If so, do you know the details of your original setup that created the LVM2 configuration (kernel version, lvm version, etc)? I am working on a LVM command/enhancement that will read the LVM information off the drives and allow recreation of the lvm configuration. Let me see if I can get something together for you to try recovery in your situation.