From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: lewis@sistina.com Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 09:51:54 -0600 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Follow-up 2: Help: lvm 0.9.1_beta3 oops (can't get my data) Message-ID: <20010129095154.E20423@sistina.com> References: <3A746B67.4FA4CD18@nortelnetworks.com> <20010128200649.C17449@sistina.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3O1VwFp74L81IIeR" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010128200649.C17449@sistina.com>; from lewis@sistina.com on Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 08:06:49PM -0600 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: List-Id: To: linux-lvm@sistina.com --3O1VwFp74L81IIeR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 08:06:49PM -0600, lewis@sistina.com wrote: > On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 12:56:39PM -0600, Joe Harvell wrote: > > When I do a 'vgdisplay -vD w0', I don't run into any problems. Does th= is rule out the possibility of a vgcfgrestore helping? > >=20 > > I looked at the man pages for vcfgrestore, but I don't know which desti= nation I should specify. Is it /dev/w0, or is it 'dev/hda8' and '/dev/hdb3= '? >=20 > I believe you want to do a 'vgcfgrestore -nw0 /dev/hda8; vgcfgrestore -nw0 > /dev/hdb3'. Let me know if that fixes things. And remember, do *not* do= a > vgscan right after your vgcfgrestore because it will revert to the previo= us > state. Simply run the vgcfgrestore command, and then try the 'vgchange -= ay' > to activate the volume group. I was told that this is incorrect information by Heinz and that you _should_ run vgscan after running vgcfgrestore because it brings the /etc/lvmtab and /etc/lvmtab.d/ in sync with the newly restored VGDA. Sorry about that. I was mixed up. --=20 AJ Lewis Sistina Software Inc. Voice: 612-379-3951 1313 5th St SE, Suite 111 Fax: 612-379-3952 Minneapolis, MN 55414 E-Mail: lewis@sistina.com http://www.sistina.com Current GPG fingerprint =3D 3B5F 6011 5216 76A5 2F6B 52A0 941E 1261 0029 2= 648 Get my key at: http://www.sistina.com/~lewis/gpgkey (Unfortunately, the PKS-type keyservers do not work with multiple sub-keys) -----Begin Obligatory Humorous Quote---------------------------------------- THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #16: C- This language was named for the grade received by its creator when he submitted it as a class project in a graduate programming class. C- is best described as a "low-level" programming language. In fact, the language generally requires more C- statements than machine-code statements to execute a given task. In this respect, it is very similar to COBOL. -----End Obligatory Humorous Quote------------------------------------------ --3O1VwFp74L81IIeR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6dZGapE6/iGtdjLERAoJLAJsHJpnQ5/VOep61WJevxj6Gvoxw2wCfVCiq fFW7Fa/uc2azkZU9uugAo6I= =d8op -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3O1VwFp74L81IIeR--