From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Heinz J . Mauelshagen Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] vg_read_with_pv_and_lv error Message-ID: <20020826123350.D18054@sistina.com> References: <20020822174612.GA8692@grimlock> <20020823103252.A8639@sistina.com> <20020823170025.GB24937@grimlock> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20020823170025.GB24937@grimlock>; from adamm@array.org on Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 11:00:25AM -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: Date: Mon Aug 26 05:49:02 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 11:00:25AM -0600, Adam McDaniel wrote: > On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 10:32:52AM +0200, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote: > > Have you tried uuid_fixer from ftp://ftp.sistina.com/pub/LVM/contrib/ in > > case it was a missing PV-UUID in the PV-UUID list yet ? > > Yes, and I think it has the right idea. The only problem is that it > has too many consistency checks, which I know for a fact that my > scenario will fail upon. > > Since I've already practically lost my data, there is probably no > extra risk in disabling those checks and forcing it to do the > modificiation. Working off a dd'd image of the hd via a loopback > device minimizes any further data loss anyways. Yep. Please give it a try. > > > People make backups! ;-) > > Yeah.. uhm. That *WAS* the backup :) > > Atleast I won't be making this mistake again.. > > -- > Adam McDaniel > Array Networks > Calgary, AB, Canada -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** 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 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-