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 (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k8IJ8IdF029945 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:08:18 -0400 Received: from lx11.mdmiller.com (wsip-68-96-21-160.om.om.cox.net [68.96.21.160]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k8IJ8BQo028965 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:08:11 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.6] (wsip-68-96-21-155.om.om.cox.net [68.96.21.155]) by lx11.mdmiller.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9C8239D60F for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:08:05 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <450EEEA0.7020703@mdmiller.com> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:08:16 -0500 From: Mitch Miller MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] HDD Failure References: <1158603016.7182.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1158603016.7182.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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"; format="flowed" To: LVM general discussion and development Nick -- if I understand your situation properly, you effectively took one of the platters (the bad drive) out of the drive (the vg) and now you still want to be able to access the entire drive ... ?? I don't think that's going to happen. Off to the backups, I'd say ... -- Mitch Nick wrote: > Hello List, > > I have a 3x 120GB HDD that are all lumped into one LVM volume. Recently, > one died so I removed it using. > > # vgreduce --removemissing Vol1 > > This worked fine but now I can't mount the volume group: > > root@nibiru:~# cat /etc/fstab | grep Vol > /dev/mapper/Vol1-share /share ext3 defaults 0 2 > root@nibiru:~# mount /share > mount: special device /dev/mapper/Vol1-share does not exist > root@nibiru:~# > > I've no idea why it says it doesn't exist as I thought all I did was > remove missing PE's from a VG - not remove the actual VG! > > Can anyone help me get my data back? Thanks for any advice. > > Nick > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ >