[linux-lvm] rescuing a VG with one missing PV

[Heinz J . Mauelshagen]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 10:53:25PM +0200, Erkki Seppala wrote:
> The drive I got was two gigabytes smaller than the original, and thus:
> 
> [21:42] lectric(pts/8):~# vgcfgrestore -n archive /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1
> vgcfgrestore -- size of physical volume /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1 differs from backup
> 
> The original disc was:
> 
>   PVs: [AN] ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1 60030976 /3664    
> 		21331968 /1302    38699008/2362  
> 
> and it now is 58633312 blocks according to fdisk.

Change your partition to have the very same size as before and vgcfgrestore.

> 
> Is there a way to still restore the remaining VG?-o Sounds like the
> backup would need to be modified. The physical extents that were in
> the dead device would need to be either removed from the VG or
> allocated from another device?
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