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From: AJ Lewis <alewis@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Is LVM safe?
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 10:45:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050620154549.GD12491@null.msp.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1119281255.18965.29.camel@volt>

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On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 04:27:35PM +0100, John Rowe wrote:
> 
> >  
> > > The idea that a disk partition needs Unix file to be able to read it is
> > > absolutely astonishing.
> > 
> > What?
> 
> I'm getting two different answers here. One person says I don't
> need /etc/lvm.*, the other says I do!

Ok, so the only time you *need* /etc/lvm/* is if you have to recover from bad
metadata.  Every PV in your VG has a complete copy of the metadata for that
VG, so you have multiple copies of the layout - if you have one of these, you
can recover your LVM setup.
 
> FWIW, I'm running Linux version 2.6.9-5.0.5.EL having 'upgraded' from
> RedHat9 to Scientific Linux 4 (a RedHat Enterprise clone), and I can't
> see my LVM..

Seeing the output of 'vgscan -vvv' and 'vgchange -ay -vvv' would be helpful -
maybe you could toss it up on pastebin.com?
 
> Of course I have backups but it worries me for the future.

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-20 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-20 12:02 [linux-lvm] Is LVM safe? John Rowe
2005-06-20 13:17 ` Rainer Krienke
2005-06-20 13:26   ` Erik Ohrnberger
2005-06-20 13:35     ` Andy Smith
2005-06-20 13:49   ` John Rowe
2005-06-20 14:09     ` Philipp Riegger
2005-06-20 14:34       ` John Rowe
2005-06-20 14:42       ` AJ Lewis
2005-06-20 15:00         ` John Rowe
2005-06-20 15:12           ` AJ Lewis
2005-06-20 15:27             ` John Rowe
2005-06-20 15:45               ` AJ Lewis [this message]
2005-06-20 16:10           ` Eric Hopper

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