From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] vgcfgrestore error ! Message-ID: <20011119151746.A13040@sistina.com> References: <3BF8E5DE.ABAEB618@LTUtech.com> <20011119125632.A12388@sistina.com> <3BF8F8BF.3FE1491C@LTUtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3BF8F8BF.3FE1491C@LTUtech.com>; from Igor.Dumaire@LTUtech.com on Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 01:19:11PM +0100 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 Nov 19 08:23:01 2001 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Igor, I overlooked the 'active VG' message vgcfgrestore is displaying. Because 'vgchange -an lvm1' wont't work in your situation I am afraid you need to reboot before being able to run vgcfgrestore successfully. Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 01:19:11PM +0100, Igor Dumaire wrote: > > you need to figure out, which Physical Volumes (PVs) belong to your VG lvm1 > > by running 'vgcfgrestore -ll -n lvm1'. Please check for the PV list at > > the end of the output. > > > > Then restore the LVM metadata by running 'vgcfgrestore -n lvm1 /dev/hdWhatever` > > on every of those. > # vgcfgrestore -n lvm1 /dev/hde1 > vgcfgrestore -- can't restore part of active volume group "lvm1" > vgcfgrestore [-d|--debug] [-f|--file VGConfPath] [-l[l]|--list [--list]] > [-n|--name VolumeGroupName] [-h|--help] > [-o|--oldpath OldPhysicalVolumePath] [-t|--test] [-v|--verbose] > [--version] [PhysicalVolumePath] > # vgcfgrestore -n lvm1 /dev/hdf1 > vgcfgrestore -- can't restore part of active volume group "lvm1" > vgcfgrestore [-d|--debug] [-f|--file VGConfPath] [-l[l]|--list [--list]] > [-n|--name VolumeGroupName] [-h|--help] > [-o|--oldpath OldPhysicalVolumePath] [-t|--test] [-v|--verbose] > [--version] [PhysicalVolumePath] > # vgcfgrestore -n lvm1 /dev/hdc1 > vgcfgrestore -- can't restore part of active volume group "lvm1" > vgcfgrestore [-d|--debug] [-f|--file VGConfPath] [-l[l]|--list [--list]] > [-n|--name VolumeGroupName] [-h|--help] > [-o|--oldpath OldPhysicalVolumePath] [-t|--test] [-v|--verbose] > [--version] [PhysicalVolumePath] > > > What's about "PV Status NOT available" in vgcfgrestore -ll -n lvm1 > message ?! > > --- Volume group --- > VG Name lvm1 > VG Access read/write > VG Status NOT available/resizable > VG # 0 > MAX LV 255 > Cur LV 1 > Open LV 0 > MAX LV Size 255.99 GB > Max PV 255 > Cur PV 3 > Act PV 3 > VG Size 171.79 GB > PE Size 4.00 MB > Total PE 43977 > Alloc PE / Size 43776 / 171.00 GB > Free PE / Size 201 / 804.00 MB > VG UUID iwDjRO-WlFd-GZUw-DU20-GP8C-mMwV-MkzCeR > > --- Logical volume --- > LV Name /dev/lvm1/Data > VG Name lvm1 > LV Write Access read/write > LV Status available > LV # 1 > # open 0 > LV Size 171.00 GB > Current LE 43776 > Allocated LE 43776 > Allocation next free > Read ahead sectors 120 > Block device 58:0 > > > --- Physical volume --- > PV Name /dev/hde1 > VG Name lvm1 > PV Size 57.27 GB / NOT usable 8.11 MB [LVM: 181.00 KB] > PV# 1 > PV Status NOT available > Allocatable yes (but full) > Cur LV 1 > PE Size (KByte) 4096 > Total PE 14659 > Free PE 0 > Allocated PE 14659 > PV UUID kbvz5r-hJlN-WU9Q-7xwj-alJ6-8UfO-jopMFc > > --- Physical volume --- > PV Name /dev/hdf1 > VG Name lvm1 > PV Size 57.27 GB / NOT usable 8.11 MB [LVM: 181.00 KB] > PV# 2 > PV Status NOT available > Allocatable yes (but full) > Cur LV 1 > PE Size (KByte) 4096 > Total PE 14659 > Free PE 0 > Allocated PE 14659 > PV UUID weQY7t-7II0-7t74-hVI5-Dj8Y-CV0O-8CyGqh > > --- Physical volume --- > PV Name /dev/hdc1 > VG Name lvm1 > PV Size 57.27 GB / NOT usable 8.11 MB [LVM: 181.00 KB] > PV# 3 > PV Status available > Allocatable yes > Cur LV 1 > PE Size (KByte) 4096 > Total PE 14659 > Free PE 201 > Allocated PE 14458 > PV UUID BFvA7F-ccvF-e5r1-3QH7-02JG-dH4r-AOYF64 > > > -- > Igor Dumaire > > www.LTUtech.com - Making Sense of Visual Content > ------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-