[linux-lvm] Renumbered drives hosed VG.

[Diehl, Jeffrey]

Well, if I do a vgscan, it should find all of the VG's, right?  The log
below indicates that this isn't happening.  All I want to do is create a
large volume, move the data from the Database VG onto that new volume, then
incorporate the space used by Database into the new volume and resize my
filesystem.  This should not take 2 days!

Any help would be most appreciated.



Script started on Wed Aug 15 08:29:02 2001

[root at filmore jdiehl]# vgscan
vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
vgscan -- found active volume group "Database"
vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created
vgscan -- WARNING: you may not have an actual VGDA backup of your volume
group


[root at filmore jdiehl]# vgcreate Database2 -s 8M /dev/sdc6
vgcreate -- "/dev/sdc6" is no new physical volume
vgcreate -- physical volume "/dev/sdc6" already belongs to volume group
"Database2"

[root at filmore jdiehl]# 
[root at filmore jdiehl]# exit

Mike Diehl,
Network Monitoring Tool Devl.
Sandia National Laboratories.
(505) 284-3137
jdiehl at sandia.gov


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Heinz J . Mauelshagen [mailto:mauelshagen at sistina.com]
> Sent: August 15, 2001 2:57 AM
> To: linux-lvm at sistina.com
> Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Renumbered drives hosed VG.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 02:52:17PM -0600, Diehl, Jeffrey wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I recently upgraded from a modular kernel to a monolithic 
> kernel, which
> > renumbered all of my drives.  sda became sdb, sdb became 
> sdc and adc became
> > sda, etc.  Now one of my VG's is hosed.  How do I recover from this?
> 
> A vgscan run should excatly address this.
> Did it take place after the changes and *before* "vgchange -ay"?
> 
> > 
> > Thanx,
> > Mike Diehl,
> > Network Monitoring Tool Devl.
> > 284-3137
> > jdiehl at sandia.gov
> > 
> > 
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