[linux-lvm] VGs gone!
David Minor
sus4 at sbcglobal.net
Mon Mar 15 15:10:37 UTC 2004
--- Rupert Hair <rupert.hair at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > We had a problem with the
> > root partition on the first drive, so we decided
> to
> > restore from the mirror using dd. After doing
> this,
> > the VGs are not in existence anymore. running
> > 'vgscan' shows it creates /etc/lvmtab and
> > /etc/lvmtab.d correctly, but they are empty.
> How were the drives mirrored? Did you use some sort
> of raid or was it all done
> by using dd to copy the whole drive?
sorry, left that part out: using rsync to mirror the
drives.
> What does pvscan show?
>
pvscan complains about "pv_read(): read" reading
physical volumes.
with -d on pvscan, I think everything looks good
until:
pv_read -- going to read /dev/md9
pv_read -- LEAVING with ret: -282
Thanks,
dm
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