[linux-lvm] vgcfgrestore error !

Heinz J . Mauelshagen mauelshagen at sistina.com
Tue Nov 20 05:25:02 UTC 2001


On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 04:22:43PM +0100, Igor Dumaire wrote:
> > 
> > I overlooked the 'active VG' message vgcfgrestore is displaying.
> > Because 'vgchange -an lvm1' wont't work in your situation I am afraid you need
> > to reboot before being able to run vgcfgrestore successfully.
> > 
> After the reboot vgcfgrestore doesn't work !
> 
> # vgchange -an lvm1
> vgchange -- volume group "lvm1" does not exist
> 
> # vgcfgrestore  -n lvm1  /dev/hde1
> vgcfgrestore -- can't restore part of active volume group "lvm1"

Strange.
Please provide "vgdisplay -v;pvscan;lvmdiskscan" and "pvdata -PP" for all
PVs belonging to the missing VG.

Thanks,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --

> 
> What do I do ?
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Igor Dumaire
> 
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