[linux-lvm] My VG is gone...

[Joe Thornber]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 07:15:18AM +0200, Rasmus Wiman wrote:
> ...And I want them up quickly!
> 
> This evening I added a 36 GB drive to our department server. I did a
> vgextend on it and somehow it all went terribly wrong. It seems to me that
> the new drive got added twice, but with different UUIDs. Of course there
> is no way vgchange will bring it online. Is there a solution to the
> problem? I downloaded LDE from <http://lde.sourceforge.net/> to have a
> look at it, but I don't know what to alter. I run Slackware 8 with Kernel
> 2.4.8 and LVM-1.0. The attached files contain output from pvdata -U -V -PP
> on all three partitions.

You're right sdb1 appears to have been added twice with seperate
UUID's.  I'm at a loss to explain this at the moment.  Did you run
pvcreate more than once on sdb1 ? (I want to know where that extra
uuid came from).

- Joe