From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k9EITYUc016652 for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:29:34 -0400 Received: from mail.bdmcc-us.com (bdmcc-us.com [209.42.230.180]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k9EITUmf022283 for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:29:31 -0400 Received: from localhost (mail.bdmcc-us.com [192.168.1.133]) by mail.bdmcc-us.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D18F417F8AD for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:26:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.bdmcc-us.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.bdmcc-us.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 26045-06 for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:26:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:26:19 -0400 From: Brian McCullough Message-ID: <20061014182619.GA25852@bdmcc-us.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Subject: [linux-lvm] Missing VGs? Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@redhat.com Folks, I have a drive with two "Linux raid autodetect" partitions, which, as far as I know, have LVM VGs on them. However, even though mdadm happily starts both RAID devices ( each half of a RAID-1 device ), vgscan and pvscan don't give me answers that I really understand. First pvscan -vvv ( edited output ): Processing: pvscan -vvv O_DIRECT will be used Setting global/locking_type to 1 Setting global/locking_dir to /var/lock/lvm File-based locking enabled. Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices /dev/acpi: Not a block device /dev/adsp: Not a block device . . . /dev/hda5: No label detected Closed /dev/hda5 Opened /dev/md5 RO /dev/md5: size is 78139904 sectors Closed /dev/md5 /dev/md5: size is 78139904 sectors Opened /dev/md5 RO O_DIRECT /dev/md5: block size is 4096 bytes Closed /dev/md5 Using /dev/md5 Opened /dev/md5 RO O_DIRECT /dev/md5: block size is 4096 bytes /dev/md5: lvm2 label detected Closed /dev/md5 lvmcache: /dev/md5 now orphaned Opened /dev/md5 RO O_DIRECT /dev/md5: block size is 4096 bytes Closed /dev/md5 Opened /dev/Ubuntu/lv_usrsrc RO . . . Closed /dev/hda6 lvmcache: /dev/hda6 now in VG Ubuntu Opened /dev/md6 RO /dev/md6: size is 312576512 sectors Closed /dev/md6 /dev/md6: size is 312576512 sectors Opened /dev/md6 RO O_DIRECT /dev/md6: block size is 4096 bytes Closed /dev/md6 Using /dev/md6 Opened /dev/md6 RO O_DIRECT /dev/md6: block size is 4096 bytes /dev/md6: lvm2 label detected Closed /dev/md6 lvmcache: /dev/md6 now orphaned Opened /dev/md6 RO O_DIRECT /dev/md6: block size is 4096 bytes Closed /dev/md6 Opened /dev/Ubuntu/lv_home RO /dev/Ubuntu/lv_home: size is 4710400 sectors . . . /dev/hda6 9: 3516 62: NULL(0:0) Opened /dev/md5 RO O_DIRECT /dev/md5: block size is 4096 bytes /dev/md5: lvm2 label detected Closed /dev/md5 Opened /dev/md5 RO O_DIRECT /dev/md5: block size is 4096 bytes Closed /dev/md5 Opened /dev/md5 RO O_DIRECT /dev/md5: block size is 4096 bytes /dev/md5: lvm2 label detected Closed /dev/md5 Opened /dev/md5 RO O_DIRECT /dev/md5: block size is 4096 bytes Closed /dev/md5 Opened /dev/md6 RO O_DIRECT /dev/md6: block size is 4096 bytes /dev/md6: lvm2 label detected Closed /dev/md6 Opened /dev/md6 RO O_DIRECT /dev/md6: block size is 4096 bytes Closed /dev/md6 . . . PV /dev/hda6 VG Ubuntu lvm2 [13.98 GB / 2.58 GB free] PV /dev/md5 lvm2 [37.26 GB] PV /dev/md6 lvm2 [149.05 GB] Total: 7 [372.62 GB] / in use: 5 [186.31 GB] / in no VG: 2 [186.31 GB] And then, vgscan -vvv said ( also edited ): Processing: vgscan -vvv O_DIRECT will be used Setting global/locking_type to 1 Setting global/locking_dir to /var/lock/lvm File-based locking enabled. Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices /dev/acpi: Not a block device . . . /dev/hda5: No label detected Closed /dev/hda5 Opened /dev/md5 RO /dev/md5: size is 78139904 sectors Closed /dev/md5 /dev/md5: size is 78139904 sectors Opened /dev/md5 RO O_DIRECT /dev/md5: block size is 4096 bytes Closed /dev/md5 Using /dev/md5 Opened /dev/md5 RO O_DIRECT /dev/md5: block size is 4096 bytes /dev/md5: lvm2 label detected Closed /dev/md5 lvmcache: /dev/md5 now orphaned Opened /dev/md5 RO O_DIRECT /dev/md5: block size is 4096 bytes Closed /dev/md5 Opened /dev/Ubuntu/lv_usrsrc RO . . . Closed /dev/hda6 lvmcache: /dev/hda6 now in VG Ubuntu Opened /dev/md6 RO /dev/md6: size is 312576512 sectors Closed /dev/md6 /dev/md6: size is 312576512 sectors Opened /dev/md6 RO O_DIRECT /dev/md6: block size is 4096 bytes Closed /dev/md6 Using /dev/md6 Opened /dev/md6 RO O_DIRECT /dev/md6: block size is 4096 bytes /dev/md6: lvm2 label detected Closed /dev/md6 lvmcache: /dev/md6 now orphaned Opened /dev/md6 RO O_DIRECT /dev/md6: block size is 4096 bytes Closed /dev/md6 Opened /dev/Ubuntu/lv_home RO . . . And nothing more about the supposed VGs on those partitions. What should I try next? Thanks, Brian