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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=338550616-23092005>I inadvertantly blew
away the partition table on /dev/sdo that was in use. While the system is still
running and no errors have occured...yet, I need</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=338550616-23092005>to get the partition
table restored and be able to vgdisplay the datavg. Below is the sampling
of error messages.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><<A
href="mailto:root@paxton:/proc/lvm">root@paxton:/proc/lvm</A>># vgdisplay
datavg<BR>vgdisplay -- ERROR: VGDA in kernel and lvmtab are NOT consistent;
please run vgscan<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><<A
href="mailto:root@paxton:/proc/lvm">root@paxton:/proc/lvm</A>>#
vgscan<BR>vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a
while...)<BR>vgscan -- found active volume group "rootvg"<BR>vgscan -- found
active volume group "localvg"<BR>vgscan -- found active volume group
"datavg"<BR>vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): current PV" can't get
data of volume group "datavg" from physical volume(s)<BR>vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab"
and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created<BR>vgscan -- WARNING: This program does
not do a VGDA backup of your volume groups</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=338550616-23092005><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is it safe to clear
VGDA using the "dd if=/dev/zero of=PhysicalVolume bs=512 count=1" shown in
the pvcreate man pages and the come back and</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=338550616-23092005><FONT face=Arial size=2>recreate the
VGDA using pvcreate, or use pvcreate outright not using the dd method? Or,
is there a better method to get /dev/sdo back into the
datavg</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=338550616-23092005><FONT face=Arial size=2>group while
recreating the partition table?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=4>Paul Stein</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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