Re: [linux-lvm] pb with vgimport

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

On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 04:49:45PM +0200, Sébastien GALLET wrote:
> Thank you for your answer, but I found a solution by editing  disc and 
> partitions with Linux Disk Editor ....
> Now, everything is ok and I found my data back. 
> 
> lvmvg1PV_EXPPV_EXPPV_EXP:  I exported 3 times the VG.  Is the result 
> normal??? 

Nope :-(

Which LVM version was it?

Regards,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --


> 
> It would seem that the problem comes from export (or the importation) on 
> hdk.
> .
> 
> 
> Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote:
> 
> >"lvmvg1PV_EXPPV_EXPPV_EXP" looks very strange.
> >The suffix PV_EXP should only be there once.
> >
> >Which LVM versions of the tools and driver did you use?
> >Do you remmeber the steps which lead to this situation?
> >
> >Please send a bzipped tasball which contains the output files retrieved with
> >
> >for d in /dev/hd[e-g]1 /dev/hdk
> >do
> >	dd if=$d of=`basename $d`.vgda bs=1k count=4k
> >done
> >
> >to me directly <mge@sistina.com> to fix this.
> >
> >On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 03:58:03PM +0200, sgallet@netcourrier.com wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hello,
> >>I have an error when i do 
> >>vgimport lvmvg1 /dev/hde1 /dev/hdf1 /dev/hdg1 /dev/hdk
> >>vgimport -- ERROR: wrong number of physical volumes to import volume group "lvmvg1
> >>
> >>This is my pvscan
> >>pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
> >>pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdk"   is in EXPORTED VG "lvmvg1PV_EXPPV_EXPPV_EXP" [76.69 GB / 0 free]
> >>pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdg1"  is in EXPORTED VG "lvmvg1PV_EXPPV_EXPPV_EXP" [37.27 GB / 0 free]
> >>pvscan -- ACTIVE   PV "/dev/hdh1" of VG "lvmvg2"                         [74.52 GB / 55.89 GB free]
> >>pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hde1"  is in EXPORTED VG "lvmvg1PV_EXPPV_EXPPV_EXP" [38.34 GB / 0 free]
> >>pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdf1"  is in EXPORTED VG "lvmvg1PV_EXPPV_EXPPV_EXP" [28.62 GB / 0 free]
> >>pvscan -- total: 5 [255.47 GB] / in use: 5 [255.47 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0]
> >>
> >>Help me please
> >>
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