[linux-lvm] Re: [Cooker] trying to upgrade from mandrake 8.1 to cooker destroyed lvm

[SI Reasoning]

while attempting 
vgcfgrestore -n mandrake -ll
I got a seg fault. The core file reads:

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   %d reads  %d writes

   --- Logical extents ---
   LE    PV                        PE     reads     
writes

--- SI Reasoning <sczjd at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have had lvm running on a mandrake 8.1 system. 
> When
> I upgraded it to cooker (pre 8.2) it did not read my
> lvm properly (I had /usr, /var and /home pv's in the
> "mandrake" vg. Now it still has the lvmconf file
> mandrake.conf but nothing in /etc/lvmtab.d and
> /etc/lvmtab is a 1 kb file. Since this is a home
> system, I have no backups...but it still has info I
> would like to keep.
> 
> Is there a way to rebuild this? I am pretty new to
> lvm.
> I am running lvm-0.9-3mdk. I have lvm running on a
> fresh install of cooker on my laptop so I know this
> version works.
> 
> I still have /dev/hda3 showing as a lvm partion (8e)
> mandrake had set them up originally as
> /dev/mandrake/1
> /dev/mandrake/2
> /dev/mandrake/3
> 
> /etc/fstab
> /dev/hda1 / reiserfs notail 1 1
> none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
> /dev/mandrake/1 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2
> /dev/hdg /mnt/cdrom auto
> user,iocharset=iso8859-1,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto
> 0$
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
>
user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,exec,codepage=850,noaut$none
> /proc proc defaults 0 0
> none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
> /dev/mandrake/2 /usr reiserfs defaults 1 2
> /dev/mandrake/3 /var reiserfs defaults 1 2
> /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
> 
> I had to setup /dev/hda2 as swap to enable the
> cooker
> upgrade since it did not recognize /dev/hda5 during
> the install. It still does not recognize /dev/hda5
> 
> 
> 
> 
> =====
> SI Reasoning
> sczjd at yahoo.com
> 
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> little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor
> safety." 
> Benjamin Franklin
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