[linux-lvm] Re: [Cooker] trying to upgrade from mandrake 8.1 to cooker destroyed lvm

[SI Reasoning]

The previous version I was running was identified in
/var/log/messages as
0.9.1_beta7(ish)

The new version is identified as:
1.0.1-rc4(ish)(03/10/2001)

--- SI Reasoning <sczjd at yahoo.com> wrote:
> while attempting 
> vgcfgrestore -n mandrake -ll
> I got a seg fault. The core file reads:
> 
>
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^$@#;ÛÀ[áßT
> -ÚT -Ú
> 
> &Àÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ
>    %d reads  %d writes
> 
>    --- Logical extents ---
>    LE    PV                        PE     reads     
> writes
> 
> --- SI Reasoning <sczjd at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I have had lvm running on a mandrake 8.1 system. 
> > When
> > I upgraded it to cooker (pre 8.2) it did not read
> my
> > lvm properly (I had /usr, /var and /home pv's in
> the
> > "mandrake" vg. Now it still has the lvmconf file
> > mandrake.conf but nothing in /etc/lvmtab.d and
> > /etc/lvmtab is a 1 kb file. Since this is a home
> > system, I have no backups...but it still has info
> I
> > would like to keep.
> > 
> > Is there a way to rebuild this? I am pretty new to
> > lvm.
> > I am running lvm-0.9-3mdk. I have lvm running on a
> > fresh install of cooker on my laptop so I know
> this
> > version works.
> > 
> > I still have /dev/hda3 showing as a lvm partion
> (8e)
> > mandrake had set them up originally as
> > /dev/mandrake/1
> > /dev/mandrake/2
> > /dev/mandrake/3
> > 
> > /etc/fstab
> > /dev/hda1 / reiserfs notail 1 1
> > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
> > /dev/mandrake/1 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2
> > /dev/hdg /mnt/cdrom auto
> >
> user,iocharset=iso8859-1,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto
> > 0$
> > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
> >
>
user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,exec,codepage=850,noaut$none
> > /proc proc defaults 0 0
> > none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
> > /dev/mandrake/2 /usr reiserfs defaults 1 2
> > /dev/mandrake/3 /var reiserfs defaults 1 2
> > /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
> > /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
> > 
> > I had to setup /dev/hda2 as swap to enable the
> > cooker
> > upgrade since it did not recognize /dev/hda5
> during
> > the install. It still does not recognize /dev/hda5
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > =====
> > SI Reasoning
> > sczjd at yahoo.com
> > 
> > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain
> a
> > little temporary safety deserve neither liberty
> nor
> > safety." 
> > Benjamin Franklin
> > 
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> 
> =====
> SI Reasoning
> sczjd at yahoo.com
> 
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
> little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor
> safety." 
> Benjamin Franklin
> 
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=====
SI Reasoning
sczjd at yahoo.com

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