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From: Josef Whiter <jwhiter@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Volume group not accessible
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 17:50:00 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43864398.1040402@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200511242342.03081.Matthias.Meyer@gmx.li>

Matthias Meyer wrote:

>And now I'm not sure how to gain access again.
>
>Should I try to restore metadata with vgcfgrestore?
>Is it possible that I lost my data if I try vgcfgrestore?
>
>Or should I create a new Volume group and include the device /dev/hdd1 to 
>this VG? If I do this, what the way to delete volume group LVM2?
>
>Thanks in advance
>Matthias
>  
>
Hello,

I'm not sure what the best way to go about fixing this problem is, but a 
vgcfgrestore shouldn't harm your data, it basically just writes over a 
section of your disk that was already being used by the LVM data 
anyway.  Hope that helps.

Josef

-- 
Josef Whiter, RHCE
Global Support Services
Red Hat, Inc.
919-754-3700 x44429

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-24 22:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-24 22:42 [linux-lvm] Volume group not accessible Matthias Meyer
2005-11-24 22:50 ` Josef Whiter [this message]
2005-11-25 20:00   ` Matthias Meyer

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