Re: [linux-lvm] PV#s are not unique

["Heinz J . Mauelshagen" <mauelshagen@sistina.com>]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 07:23:56PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> Hi Heinz!
> 
> On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote:
> 
> > But anyway:
> > 
> > you need to read te first sector of
> > 
> > /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/part1
> > and
> > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1.
> > 
> > Change unsigned int value (4 byte) at decimal offset 432 to 5 for bus1
> > and to 7 for bus0 which should give you unique numbering of PVs and store
> > them back to the corresponding disks.
> 
> Thank you for your reply, I did this.  PVids are unique now, but vgscan
> still does not find and activate the volume group.
> 
> Do you have something else I could try?
> 
> I think of trying to restore the metadata on all PVs using vgcfgrestore
> since I have a few copies of vg_stuff.conf in /etc/lvmconf.  Would this
> be a stupid idea?

No, not at all. This is actually the recommended wayx to restore a messy VG ;-)
You need to run "pvcreate -ff" on all of the (former) PVs and vgcfgrestore on
each of them afterwards.

Could you save your VG's metadata before by running

for PV in YOurPVs
   do dd if=/dev/$PV of=VGDA.${VGName}.$PV bs=1k count=512
done

and storing the copies on tape or something so that we are able to backup
for potential further investigation?

> 
> TIA
> 					yours,
> 					peter
> 
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