[linux-lvm] telling LVM it's not hda8 anymore but now it's hda7

[Heinz J . Mauelshagen]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 10:46:21AM +0200, Martin Milner wrote:
> I am such a noob. I deleted a partition. I had /dev/hda8 in an lvm volume
> but i deleted a lower partition then rebooted. Now i got a kernel panic
> because my /dev/hda9 (my / ) had gone. Running fdisk and fixing the
> partition table nicely made my old /dev/hda9 to /dev/hda8 (and my hda8 was now hda7). After some
> fumbling around with grub i got it to boot again and most of my installation
> is running again. Except for my LVM stuff
> 
> I need to tell LVM that there no longer is a /dev/hda8, that it is now
> /dev/hda7. Without losing my data.

Running vgscan before "vgchange -ay" should do it.

> 
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Regards,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --

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