<html><head><base href="x-msg://34/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Perhaps 'vgcfgrestore' would work to solve your problem. You would need access to the backup files (/etc/lvm/backup).<div><br></div><div> brassow</div><div><br><div><div>On May 29, 2012, at 6:59 AM, abdul jabbar wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><div dir="ltr">Hi,<br><br>I am going trough a peculiar problem after Linux server reboot.<br><br>I had rebooted RHEL-5.3 server and found /var filesystem got corrupted and i was able to restore /var from Mondorescue image which was taken 1 month back.<br><br>I had 2 VGs with a LV configured under each VG.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>After reboot i lost one of my Lvs ,VG under which Lv is created showing " 0 logical volume(s) in volume group "VGGLOTAM-BLD8" now active "<br>If i run pvscan i am able to see PVs under VG.<br><br> PV /dev/sdai VG VGGLOTAM-BLD8 lvm2 [100.00 GB / 100.00 GB free]<br> PV /dev/sdah VG VGGLOTAM-BLD8 lvm2 [100.00 GB / 100.00 GB free]<br> PV /dev/sdag VG VGGLOTAM-BLD8 lvm2 [100.00 GB / 100.00 GB free]<br> PV /dev/sdaf VG VGGLOTAM-BLD8 lvm2 [100.00 GB / 100.00 GB free]<br> PV /dev/sdae VG VGGLOTAM-BLD8 lvm2 [100.00 GB / 100.00 GB free]<br><br><br><br>Is there any possibilty to recover my LV as it contains very critical data?<br><br><br>Thanks in advance<br></div>_______________________________________________<br>linux-lvm mailing list<br><a href="mailto:linux-lvm@redhat.com">linux-lvm@redhat.com</a><br><a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm</a><br>read the LVM HOW-TO at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/">http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/</a></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>