[linux-lvm] recover LVM system

[Heinz J . Mauelshagen]

Sven,

you've got no LVM prblem but rather a filesystem one unless
direct access to the LV fails
(i.e. "dd if=/dev/system/data of=/dev/null bs=1k count=1024").

What do mount and fsck display ?

Regards,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --


On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 07:20:06PM +0100, Sven Falk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> seems I can't mount my LVM anymore, here are the details:
> 
> I created a logical volume called data containing the partitions hda5
> and hdb5 on Suse 8.0. Here is the output from:
> 
> zeus:/home/bailong # pvscan
> pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
> pvscan -- ACTIVE   PV "/dev/hda5" of VG "system" [50.98 GB / 0 free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE   PV "/dev/hdb5" of VG "system" [57.26 GB / 40 MB
> free]
> pvscan -- total: 2 [108.26 GB] / in use: 2 [108.26 GB] / in no VG: 0
> [0]
> 
> zeus:/home/bailong # vgscan
> vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
> vgscan -- found active volume group "system"
> vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created
> vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your
> volume group
> 
> zeus:/home/bailong # lvscan
> lvscan -- ACTIVE            "/dev/system/data" [108.20 GB]
> lvscan -- 1 logical volumes with 108.20 GB total in 1 volume group
> lvscan -- 1 active logical volumes
> 
> Actually I can't mount the /dev/system/data anymore :-(
> 
> Cheers
> Sven
> 
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