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<DIV><FONT size=2>Hi all,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>I have created my vg00 (/dev/hdb2) with 1 LV (lv00).
<BR>After mounting it, I can work fine with lv00. <BR>But, on next boot, vgscan
removes /etc/lvmtab and /etc/lvmtab.d and it isn't able to create a new set of
these files.<BR><SNIP><BR>vgscan -- reading data of volume group "vg00"
from physical volume(s)<BR>vgscan -- ERROR -157: can't get data of volume group
"vg00" from physical volume(s)<BR>vgscan -- ERROR -157: creating "/etc/lvmtab"
and "/etc/lvmtab.d"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>With others LVM tools also give almost same msgs
:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><BR>vgcfgbackup -- reading volume group data for "vg00" from
disk(s)I <BR>vgcfgbackup -- ERROR -157: reading VGDA of "vg00"<BR>vgcfgbackup --
ERROR -313: backing up volume group "vg00"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>vgck -- reading volume group data for "vg00" from physical
volume(s)<BR>vgck -- ERROR -157: reading data of volume group "vg00" from
physical volume(s)<BR>vgck -- please DON'T run vgscan prior to
vgcfgrestore<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>My disk is a IDE 3.2GB with 2 partitions :</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2># fdisk -l /dev/hdb</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Disk /dev/hdb: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 785
cylinders</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 bytes</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2> Device Boot
Start
End
Blocks Id
System</FONT></DIV>
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size=2>/dev/hdb1 1
5
20128+ 83
Linux native</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT
size=2>/dev/hdb2 6
785 3144960 83
Unknown</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>The LVM program is built into my kernel (2.0.36) not as a
module.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Am I missing something in my configuration?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Please help me!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Thanks in advance,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Fernando Dammous</FONT></DIV>
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