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From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lvm - problem replacing failed disk
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:43:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060616184356.GB11813@agk.surrey.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1150407680.28492.28.camel@laue.chem.uleth.ca>

On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 03:41:20PM -0600, Steven Mosimann wrote:
> (1) Replaced the failed disk with one of the same size  
> (2) Used pvcreate to make the same physical volumes on the new disk
> that were present on the failed disk.  Example of the actual command I
> used was:
>   pvcreate --uuid xxxxx /dev/sdb1
> where xxxxx was the pv uuid from pvdisplay 

Missing the --restorefile arg there (for safety - if it was originally
created by lvm2 with default options it'll make no difference).
 
Missing a 'vgcfgrestore' step.

> (3) Used vgchange -a y -P to activate the volume group

No need for -P here.  That's what you use if you *don't* do steps 1 and 2 etc.

Alasdair
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agk@redhat.com

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-16 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-15 21:41 [linux-lvm] lvm - problem replacing failed disk Steven Mosimann
2006-06-16 18:43 ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
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2006-06-22 19:12 Steven Mosimann

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