[linux-lvm] LVM is wont restore. DESPERATE. PLEASE HELP!

[Heinz J . Mauelshagen]

Alex,

you may want to try uuid_fixer which i've send to you in direct mail.

Run "uuid_fixer YourPV1 YourPV2" and answer yes to the update question.

The run "vgscan; vgchange -ay".

Regards,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --

On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 04:32:54PM +1100, acpretty at ozemail.com.au wrote:
> Hey all, 
>   If someone is around who could help me it would be SO appreciated. 
> 
> I have a volume group (vg00) with two physical volumes in it.     
> 
> with in about half an hour .....
>    I extended one of the logical volumes, no probs
>    I extended the file system, noprobs 
>    was doing a large-ish transfer to my enlarged fs when the machine crashed...
> 
> upon restarting the machine told me I had inconsistencies in my PV's so I did a vgcfgrestore. Now upon restarting I get no acknowledgement of the volume group at all....
> 
> SO! I thought I'd try and force a vgimport of the volume group only to find that vgimport says that the two PV's in the VG are not from the same VG. 
> 
> now I'm a bit lost, if anyone could help, PLEASE!!!! I have one last thing I think I should try but I'm uncertain. 
> 
> When I run pvdata the bit at the bottom says:
> 
>   --- List of physical volume UUIDs ---
> 
>   001: EtJbdT-qZBP-P6Bf-yRwi-I4Bn-0qzS-L13XYu
>   002: --- EMPTY ---
> 
> shouldn't each PV know about all the other PV's UUID's in this list and therefore can anyone tell me if using the UUID fixer program is the thing to do?
> 
> more importantly can anyone tell me how much of the partitions I need to dd in order to preserve the meta data in case this doesn't help
> 
> Thanks reading this far and thanks in advance to the help
> Alex
> 
> This message was sent through MyMail http://www.mymail.com.au
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> linux-lvm mailing list
> linux-lvm at sistina.com
> http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm
> read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/

*** Software bugs are stupid.
    Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them ***

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Heinz Mauelshagen                                 Sistina Software Inc.
Senior Consultant/Developer                       Am Sonnenhang 11
                                                  56242 Marienrachdorf
                                                  Germany
Mauelshagen at Sistina.com                           +49 2626 141200
                                                       FAX 924446
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-