From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [10.10.62.44] (vpn-62-44.rdu2.redhat.com [10.10.62.44]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id sBJGkTC2030974 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2014 11:46:30 -0500 Message-ID: <54945665.5060107@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 11:46:29 -0500 From: Jack Waterworth MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <5493FEB9.7010009@crowie.net> In-Reply-To: <5493FEB9.7010009@crowie.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Missing Logical Volumes 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: linux-lvm@redhat.com It sounds like the VG was not activated. You can activate it with the following command: # vgchange -ay array1 Jack Waterworth, Red Hat Certified Architect Senior Storage Technical Support Engineer Red Hat Global Support Services ( 1.888.467.3342 ) On 12/19/2014 05:32 AM, G Crowe wrote: > After rebooting, some of my logical volumes did not have device files. > > /dev/array1/LVpics > and > /dev/mapper/array1-LVpics > did not exist but the output of "lvdisplay" said that the volume was > available (see below). > > vgscan did not resolve the problem. > > I was able to regain access to the LV by renaming it, then renaming it > back... > [root@host1 ~]# lvrename /dev/array1/LVpics /dev/array1/LVpicsnew > Renamed "LVpics" to "LVpicsnew" in volume group "array1" > [root@host1 ~]# lvrename /dev/array1/LVpicsnew /dev/array1/LVpics > Renamed "LVpicsnew" to "LVpics" in volume group "array1" > > There are 29 LVs in the VG and 25 of them came up OK and 4 had this > problem. Note that there is only one single PV (a RAID6 array) in the > VG, and there are two VGs on the machine. > > Is this expected behaviour, or is it something I should be worried about? > > > > --- Logical volume --- > LV Path /dev/array1/LVpics > LV Name LVpics > VG Name array1 > LV UUID WH7g9u-Ls7J-fIpQ-Hk2p-mUuH-QRKf-9uxcM2 > LV Write Access read/write > LV Creation host, time example.com, 2013-11-26 07:29:51 +1100 > LV Status available > # open 0 > LV Size 350.00 GiB > Current LE 89600 > Segments 2 > Allocation inherit > Read ahead sectors auto > - currently set to 256 > Block device 253:9 > > > I am running Fedora 19 with kernel 3.11.9-200.fc19.x86_64 > > > Thanks > > GC > > _______________________________________________ > 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/