[linux-lvm] catch-22
Erick Calder
e at arix.com
Fri Dec 14 19:03:02 UTC 2001
a drive part of a volume crashed on me... I've looked through the man pages
and HOWTO but find no happiness... help!
the volume used to be called LVM (/dev/LVM) and had /dev/hda3 and
/dev/hdc... hdc crashed and I've replaced it with an identical drive. I did
a "pvcreate /dev/hdc" after installation but cannot seem to add it to the
volume:
# vgextend LVM /dev/hdc
vgextend -- volume group "LVM" doesn't exist
and if I try to create it:
# vgcreate LVM /dev/hdc
vgcreate -- volume group directory or file already exists
vgcreate -- please choose a different name
I look in:
# ls /dev/LVM
total 104
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 26 12:54 ./
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 98304 Dec 13 17:46 ../
crw-r----- 1 root disk 109, 0 Oct 26 12:54 group
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 58, 0 Oct 26 12:54 mp3z
# ls /proc/lvm/VGs
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Dec 14 17:52 ./
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Dec 14 17:52 ../
what is the correct procedure to follow? shall I just blow away the /dev/LVM
directory and do a "pvcreate -ff /dev/hda3"?
1k thx - e
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