[linux-lvm] Re: Help! Upgrade 2.2.18 -> 2.4.4 killed a PV
Heinz J. Mauelshagen
Mauelshagen at sistina.com
Wed May 30 09:28:09 UTC 2001
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 09:40:21PM +0200, Jens Benecke wrote:
> On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 09:11:28PM +0000, Heinz J. Mauelshagen wrote:
> >
> > Jens,
> > you need to run pvcreate on the invalid PV before running vgcfgrestore.
>
> I did so.
>
> Now I have a PV that is associated to an unknown VG, and vgcfgrestore says
>
> vgcfgrestore -- size of physical volume /dev/hdc1 differs from backup
>
> although 'vgcfgrestore -n data -ll' and 'pvdata -PP /dev/hdc1' show EXACTLY
> the same amount of extents (used/free/..), and GB. And hdc1 certainly
> didn't change in size.
>
> Strange: BOTH vgcfgrestore and pvdata -PP know that the PVs belong to the
> VG "data", but vgscan doesn't find it, and pvscan says both belong to an
> unknown VG and I should run vgscan.
If pvdata still tells you, that the PV belongs to some VG it hasn't created
a new one, likely because your didn't use "pvcreate -ff".
Does "pvcreate -ff"/vgcfgrestore help it?
BTW: WRT to your hex dump; see my other answer.
>
>
> So, I am a little further but not yet there =;)
>
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
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