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

[Erkki Seppala]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 10:22:28AM +0100, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote:
> 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:
> > 
> > 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.

Thanks for the suggestion, and I would very much like to do that, but
as I said, the replacement drive is a bit smaller than the old one,
thus I cannot make as big partition :-).

I was considering hacking vgcfgrestore to ignore the fact that the
size mismatches, are there problems to be expected? Like severe VG
corruption.. I might just as well try anything, it can't be any worse
than the current situation.

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