[linux-lvm] Wrecked Logical Volume with vgreduce --removemissing

[Tom+Dale <tdmyth yahoo com>]

I had a bad drive in my volume group, so I tried "vgreduce --removemissing VolGroup00" which seemed to work. Then, I tried "vgchange -ay --partial VolGroup00" which also appeared to complete successfully.  It seems like I was partly successful but I cannot get the logical volume to be recognized.  I don't know what else to do?  Where can I learn more about LVM?  How does one utilize the LVM archive or backup files?  Can't seem to find an answer to this problem.  Is all of my data lost?

[root[at]server ~]# lvchange -vvvay /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 
Processing: lvchange -vvvay /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 
O_DIRECT will be used 
Setting global/locking_type to 1 
Setting global/locking_dir to /var/lock/lvm 
File-based locking enabled. 
Using logical volume(s) on command line
 
Locking /var/lock/lvm/V_VolGroup00 WB 
Opened /dev/sda RW 
/dev/sda: block size is 4096 bytes 
/dev/sda: No label detected  
Opened /dev/hda1 RW 
/dev/hda1: block size is 1024 bytes 
/dev/hda1: No label detected 
Opened /dev/hda2 RW 
/dev/hda2: block size is 4096 bytes 
/dev/hda2: No label detected 
Opened /dev/hda3 RW 
/dev/hda3: block size is 4096 bytes 
/dev/hda3: No label detected 
Opened /dev/hda5 RW 
/dev/hda5: block size is 512 bytes 
/dev/hda5: lvm2 label detected 
lvmcache: /dev/hda5 now orphaned 
lvmcache: /dev/hda5 now in VG VolGroup00 
Opened /dev/hdb RW 
/dev/hdb: block size is 4096 bytes 
/dev/hdb: lvm2 label detected 
lvmcache: /dev/hdb now orphaned 
lvmcache: /dev/hdb now in VG VolGroup00 
/dev/hda5: lvm2 label detected 
/dev/hdb: lvm2 label detected 
/dev/hda5: lvm2 label detected 
/dev/hdb: lvm2 label detected 
Read VolGroup00 metadata (11) from /dev/hda5 at 18944 size
 720 
/dev/hda5: lvm2 label detected 
/dev/hdb: lvm2 label detected 
Read VolGroup00 metadata (11) from /dev/hdb at 16896 size 720  
One or more specified logical volume(s) not found. 
Unlocking /var/lock/lvm/V_VolGroup00 
Closed /dev/sda 
Closed /dev/hda1 
Closed /dev/hda2 
Closed /dev/hda3 
Closed /dev/hda5 
Closed /dev/hdb

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