<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> What if you do "lvdisplay -m /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 --partial" P Tom+Dale wrote: <blockquote cite="mid20060904040917.25836.qmail@web30308.mail.mud.yahoo.com" type="cite">I had a bad drive in my volume group, so I tried "vgreduce --removemissing VolGroup00" which seemed to work. Then, I tried "vgchange -ay --partial VolGroup00" which also appeared to complete successfully. It seems like I was partly successful but I cannot get the logical volume to be recognized. I don't know what else to do? Where can I learn more about LVM? How does one utilize the LVM archive or backup files? Can't seem to find an answer to this problem. Is all of my data lost? [root[at]server ~]# lvchange -vvvay /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 Processing: lvchange -vvvay /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 O_DIRECT will be used Setting global/locking_type to 1 Setting global/locking_dir to /var/lock/lvm File-based locking enabled. Using logical volume(s) on command line Locking /var/lock/lvm/V_VolGroup00 WB Opened /dev/sda RW /dev/sda: block size is 4096 bytes /dev/sda: No label detected Opened /dev/hda1 RW /dev/hda1: block size is 1024 bytes /dev/hda1: No label detected Opened /dev/hda2 RW /dev/hda2: block size is 4096 bytes /dev/hda2: No label detected Opened /dev/hda3 RW /dev/hda3: block size is 4096 bytes /dev/hda3: No label detected Opened /dev/hda5 RW /dev/hda5: block size is 512 bytes /dev/hda5: lvm2 label detected lvmcache: /dev/hda5 now orphaned lvmcache: /dev/hda5 now in VG VolGroup00 Opened /dev/hdb RW /dev/hdb: block size is 4096 bytes /dev/hdb: lvm2 label detected lvmcache: /dev/hdb now orphaned lvmcache: /dev/hdb now in VG VolGroup00 /dev/hda5: lvm2 label detected /dev/hdb: lvm2 label detected /dev/hda5: lvm2 label detected /dev/hdb: lvm2 label detected Read VolGroup00 metadata (11) from /dev/hda5 at 18944 size 720 /dev/hda5: lvm2 label detected /dev/hdb: lvm2 label detected Read VolGroup00 metadata (11) from /dev/hdb at 16896 size 720 One or more specified logical volume(s) not found. Unlocking /var/lock/lvm/V_VolGroup00 Closed /dev/sda Closed /dev/hda1 Closed /dev/hda2 Closed /dev/hda3 Closed /dev/hda5 Closed /dev/hdb <hr size="1">Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=40791/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta">You're invited</a> to try the new Yahoo! Mail. <pre wrap=""> <hr size="4" width="90%"> _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:linux-lvm@redhat.com">linux-lvm@redhat.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm</a> read the LVM HOW-TO at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/">http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/</a></pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>