From: Peter Smith <peter.smith@utsouthwestern.edu>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Ran vgreduce --missing to remove broken disk, am I screwed?
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:16:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44F4AEAA.808@utsouthwestern.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001f01c6cbae$74be1480$0a00000a@thomas>
Thomas Novin wrote:
>>I had a disk that stopped working. After booting I could see with
>>pvdisplay
>>that the disk was missing. After reading everything I could find via
>>google
>>I thought that you were supposed to run 'vgreduce --remove-missing
>>volgrp0'
>>to remove the missing disk from the group.
>>
>>After this the volume group looks OK but the entire logical volume got
>>removed! Am I screwed now or is there any way to salvage the data which is
>>on the remaining three disks?
>>
>>
>
>Please someone answer this, is there any solution to this problem? To
>clarify:
>
>- Disk failure
>- Ran 'vgreduce --remove-missing volgrp0' (probably not such a good idea)
>- /dev/volgrp0/ emtpy. 'lvdisplay' doesn't show anything.
>
>So, can I somehow restore my logical volume? The three other physical
>disks/partitions are intact.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Thomas Novin
>
>
You will probably be able to restore your config from a backup. Look in
/etc/lvmconf . Or, look for files that may be backups of your
configuration. You should be able to do some sort of vgcfgrestore
command using a previous conf and get back to, at least, where you were
before doing the remove.
Peter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-29 21:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-18 14:29 [linux-lvm] Ran vgreduce --missing to remove broken disk, am I screwed? Thomas Novin
2006-08-29 21:02 ` Thomas Novin
2006-08-29 21:16 ` Peter Smith [this message]
2006-08-30 2:16 ` Tom+Dale
2006-08-30 3:09 ` Tom+Dale
2006-09-04 4:09 ` [linux-lvm] Wrecked Logical Volume with vgreduce --removemissing Tom+Dale
2006-09-06 16:29 ` Peter Smith
2006-09-07 17:18 ` Peter Smith
2006-09-11 19:05 ` Tom+Dale
2006-09-12 18:06 ` Peter Smith
2006-09-10 17:27 ` Nix
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