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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

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