[linux-lvm] Help with my LVM

[Heinz Mauelshagen]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 01:24:29PM -0300, Rodolfo Sikora de Melo 2 wrote:
> Guys, I'm desperate needing help.
> After a reboot one of lvm pv stopped do work.

What *exactly* happened to your LVM PVs before the reboot ?

> 
> The scenario:
> 10 disks: 
> 5 disks in channel A Raid 5
> 5 disks in channel B Raid 5
> 
> the sda has sda1 sda2 sda3, where only sda3 is a physical volume and is working great.
> 
> the sda has sdb1 sdb2 sdb3, where only sdb3 is a physical volume and after a reboot stopped to work.
> 
> licor:~/uuid_fixer# pvdisplay /dev/sdb3
> pvdisplay -- no physical volume identifier on "/dev/sdb3"

Presumably your RAID is fully operational, some{one|thing} has written
over the LVM metadata. At least partionally.

> 
> What I can do to fix this? I have 100Gb of important data inside this PV. 

If just the LVM metatada and no data on /dev/sdb3 is gone *and* you've
got /etc/lvmconf/ metadata backups, you want to run:

# pvcreate -ff /dev/sdb3
# vgcfgrestore -n VGName /dev/sdb3

Before you do that or any other changes to your disks, let's make clear 
what really happend first!

> 
> I can provide any information u need to help me!
> Thank you very much.
> 
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