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From: Ulrich Wiederhold <U.Wiederhold@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] restoring lvm cinfiguration
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Hi,
* Lars Grobe <grobe@gmx.net> [010821 13:23]:
> My question is concerning the naming conventions of the files. So is vg01
> the name of your vg?
Yes.

> I did a vgcfgrestore -l with the different files in /etc/lvmconf, and while
> the <vgname>.conf gives me the current config (that is after resize, and I
> want to get the config before resizing), I have a file <vgname>.conf.1.old that
> seams to hold the data before resizing.
> 
> So I would like where lvm will store the data if I resize a lv - is .conf
> the new (current after resizing) and .conf.1.old the old (before resizing)
> configuration? So if I want to undo resizing, should I restore from .conf.1.old?

I think you should use .conf.1.old then. The newest file is .conf, the
oldest one .conf.9.old (at my system, "ls -l" shows you this).
You can use the -t option to test the command.

Uli

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