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 (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m3NCV0f6005980 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:31:00 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.227]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m3NCUo74002887 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:30:50 -0400 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id c57so1434074wra.9 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:30:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:30:48 +0200 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?P=E5l_Driveklepp?=" Sender: jalla2000@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_Part_1181_32560957.1208953848294" Subject: [linux-lvm] lvm metadata 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: To: linux-lvm@redhat.com ------=_Part_1181_32560957.1208953848294 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline hi! i am truly desperate! i messed up my metadata and pvdisplay, vgdisplay and lvdisplay outputs nothing. all my disks are still functional and present. i keep getting the error message: # vgcfgrestore -f main_disk_group_mod3 main_disk_group Cannot change metadata for partial volume group main_disk_group Restore failed. i found almost no information about this error message on the web. i have one backup-file that i am pretty sure is the one i want to backup (see attachment). it seems /dev/sda's uuid has changed and that is why i modified it to have the right uuid (hence the "vgcfgrestore -f main_disk_group_mod3") lvmdiskscan outputs the following: /dev/ram0 [ 64.00 MB] /dev/sda [ 465.76 GB] LVM physical volume /dev/evms/hda1 [ 8.99 GB] /dev/ram1 [ 64.00 MB] /dev/hda1 [ 8.99 GB] /dev/hdc1 [ 232.88 GB] LVM physical volume /dev/evms/hda5 [ 431.40 MB] /dev/ram2 [ 64.00 MB] /dev/evms/hdb1 [ 149.05 GB] LVM physical volume /dev/ram3 [ 64.00 MB] /dev/evms/hdc1 [ 232.88 GB] LVM physical volume /dev/ram4 [ 64.00 MB] /dev/evms/hdd1 [ 186.31 GB] /dev/ram5 [ 64.00 MB] /dev/hda5 [ 431.40 MB] /dev/ram6 [ 64.00 MB] /dev/ram7 [ 64.00 MB] /dev/ram8 [ 64.00 MB] /dev/ram9 [ 64.00 MB] /dev/ram10 [ 64.00 MB] /dev/ram11 [ 64.00 MB] /dev/ram12 [ 64.00 MB] /dev/ram13 [ 64.00 MB] /dev/ram14 [ 64.00 MB] /dev/ram15 [ 64.00 MB] /dev/sdb [ 465.76 GB] LVM physical volume /dev/hdb1 [ 149.05 GB] /dev/hdd1 [ 186.31 GB] 0 disks 23 partitions 2 LVM physical volume whole disks 3 LVM physical volumes disk overview: /dev/sdb=0914AP4R-X75R-94Dx-Pk5g-HU0e-F6yh-8tQoEz=09500gig=09 (somehow changed to mQYVpB-CCAn-OdlL-Ows5-m33h-gCMy-DWS8ku) /dev/hdb=09kUgW4k-AO0G-qRS0-0cH8-VkzD-Xjfj-ZjzZVL=09150gig /dev/hdc1=09JDMxOF-84VA-Ir6e-tAeB-LAKj-gy4J-7GXspF=09250gig /dev/sda=09F87gox-1Z8e-eDcZ-QUxW-9gLI-XJLp-ySl017=09500gig P=E5l Driveklepp Norway > But the error probably means you're attempting to use an incomplete back= up > (or you attempted hand-editing it incorrectly). > > Alasdair ------=_Part_1181_32560957.1208953848294 Content-Type: application/octet-stream; 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