linux-lvm.redhat.com archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
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

  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

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=44F4AEAA.808@utsouthwestern.edu \
    --to=peter.smith@utsouthwestern.edu \
    --cc=linux-lvm@redhat.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).