[linux-lvm] recovering a lvm volume group after one partition's deletion

[Òscar Álvarez Vilaplana]

I've just noticed that the files in /dev/mygroup/volumeN are actually
symlinks to /dev/mapper/mygroup-volumeN, which doesn't exist.

Any ideas on how to proceed?

Thanks!


On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 20:56:14 +0100, Òscar Álvarez Vilaplana
<grimborg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks!
> 
> I did a pvcreate --restorefile thefile --uuid theuuid mygroup and then
> vgcfgrestore thefile.
> 
> Now the logical volumes appear in /dev/mygroup/, but when I try to
> mount them I get the error "mount: special device /mount/mygroup/myvol
> does not exist"
> 
> I googled for an answer but I couldn't find anything relevant.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 19:29:07 +0000, Alasdair G Kergon <agk at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 07:47:57PM +0100, Òscar Álvarez Vilaplana wrote:
> > > What I've tried is running pvcreate on the formatted partition, but
> > > vgdisplay complains that that it can't find the partition with the
> > > uuid of the lost partition. I then tried hexedit'ing the partition and
> > > changing its uuid, but this didn't fool lvm either: i got the same
> > > error.
> >
> > man vgcfgrestore
> >
> > Alasdair
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