[linux-lvm] bad vgexport/import

[Tod Detre]

> You don't know what exactly happend to your system any longer, do you ?
> Anyway, let's try to fix it.
>

actually, I did figure out what happened. The system was in a 
going-to-die
state so before I shut it down to fix it I decided to take out one of 
the
drives I wasn't using. So I did a vgreduce to remove the unused drive 
and
then did a vgchange/vgexport to export those disks. What I've found is 
that
when I did the reduce right before the export it never updated the 
remaining
disks about the removed one. So I fixed it by putting everything back 
the way
it was before then doing a vgcfgrestore to all the drives. reexported 
the vg
and once it was on the new setup I did the reduce. That seemed to work 
much
better.


Thanks for the help tho.

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