[linux-lvm]corrupt /dev/lvm - bizzare properties
Chris Doherty
chris.doherty at adelaide.edu.au
Sun Feb 8 01:00:01 UTC 2004
I've been using LVM happily for several months without any complaints or
problems. This morning that all changed. The boot process stopped cold when
lvm-mod (w|c)ouldn't load. My first impulse was to fsck, which I did as a
matter of course. Eventually, I stumbled across what appears to be the source
of my problem:
root at connect4:~# ls -la /dev/lvm
?---rws-w- 8306 840966198 976250230 875573298 Sep 24 2004 /dev/lvm
The box is a fairly vanilla RedHat 9 install. Here's a bit more info which
might be relevant:
root at connect4:~# uname -a
Linux connect4 2.4.21 #1 Fri Aug 1 00:32:29 CST 2003 i586 i586 i386 GNU/Linux
root at connect4:~# dmesg |grep LVM
LVM version 1.0.5+(22/07/2002) module loaded
root at connect4:~# lsmod |grep lvm
lvm-mod 60000 0
root at connect4:~# /sbin/pvdisplay /dev/hdc1
pvdisplay -- LVM driver/module not loaded?
normally, the output would like this:
pvdisplay -- "/dev/hdc1" is a new physical volume of 23.29 GB
Googling hasn't been much help. The closest thing I could find to my problem
was a post to the LVM mailing list (Date: Thu Jun 13 2002 - 08:59:07 CEST) which
really just confirmed that, yes, what's happened is indeed a bad thing.
> Check that /dev/lvm has the right major/minor numbers: "ls -l /dev/lvm"
> should give you something like this:
>
> # ls -l /dev/lvm
> crw-r----- 1 root root 109, 0 Mar 13 2001 /dev/lvm
I've thought about using lvmchange, but I can't discern from the manpage whether
or not this is the right thing to do. I'm at a loss as to what to do next,
since one false move could very easily hose my data.
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