From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k5GM881A017835 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 18:08:08 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.21]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with SMTP id k5GM83N9017087 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 18:08:03 -0400 Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 00:07:57 +0200 From: chris MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Subject: [linux-lvm] vgchange -ay --partial fails 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; format="flowed"; delsp="yes"; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@redhat.com hi! i still have a broken volume and i still have the wish to get at least some data back before dropping the whole configuration. the very promising way "partial" failed, i could not mount the broken volume. what else can be done? can I fake the missing device (i.e. write the uuid)? thx, chris the comlete shell output: kistl:/etc/lvm# pvscan Couldn't find device with uuid 'A57CS6-SFlw-1ROR-uIvO-cX2o-OE2g-N3SVZN'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'A57CS6-SFlw-1ROR-uIvO-cX2o-OE2g-N3SVZN'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'A57CS6-SFlw-1ROR-uIvO-cX2o-OE2g-N3SVZN'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'A57CS6-SFlw-1ROR-uIvO-cX2o-OE2g-N3SVZN'. PV /dev/hde1 VG media_volgrp lvm2 [232,88 GB / 0 free] PV /dev/hdg1 VG media_volgrp lvm2 [232,88 GB / 0 free] PV /dev/hdd1 VG media_volgrp lvm2 [232,88 GB / 0 free] PV unknown device VG media_volgrp lvm2 [232,88 GB / 0 free] PV /dev/hda3 VG media_volgrp lvm2 [224,91 GB / 456,00 MB free] PV /dev/hdb1 lvm2 [232,88 GB] Total: 6 [1,36 TB] / in use: 5 [1,13 TB] / in no VG: 1 [232,88 GB] kistl:/etc/lvm# vgchange -ay --partial Partial mode. Incomplete volume groups will be activated read-only. Couldn't find device with uuid 'A57CS6-SFlw-1ROR-uIvO-cX2o-OE2g-N3SVZN'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'A57CS6-SFlw-1ROR-uIvO-cX2o-OE2g-N3SVZN'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'A57CS6-SFlw-1ROR-uIvO-cX2o-OE2g-N3SVZN'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'A57CS6-SFlw-1ROR-uIvO-cX2o-OE2g-N3SVZN'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'A57CS6-SFlw-1ROR-uIvO-cX2o-OE2g-N3SVZN'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'A57CS6-SFlw-1ROR-uIvO-cX2o-OE2g-N3SVZN'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'A57CS6-SFlw-1ROR-uIvO-cX2o-OE2g-N3SVZN'. Couldn't find device with uuid 'A57CS6-SFlw-1ROR-uIvO-cX2o-OE2g-N3SVZN'. 1 logical volume(s) in volume group "media_volgrp" now active kistl:/etc/lvm# lvscan Couldn't find device with uuid 'A57CS6-SFlw-1ROR-uIvO-cX2o-OE2g-N3SVZN'. Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group media_volgrp. Couldn't find device with uuid 'A57CS6-SFlw-1ROR-uIvO-cX2o-OE2g-N3SVZN'. Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group media_volgrp. Couldn't find device with uuid 'A57CS6-SFlw-1ROR-uIvO-cX2o-OE2g-N3SVZN'. Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group media_volgrp. Couldn't find device with uuid 'A57CS6-SFlw-1ROR-uIvO-cX2o-OE2g-N3SVZN'. Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group media_volgrp. Volume group "media_volgrp" not found kistl:/etc/lvm# mount /dev/mapper/media_volgrp-media_vol mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/mapper/media_volgrp-media_vol, or too many mounted file systems (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)