[linux-lvm] Volume groups not found

[Andreas Dilger]

On Mar 01, 2002  12:25 -0800, Wolfe, Gordon W wrote:
> We are in the process of upgrading to SuSE Linux/390 with the 2.4.7 kernel,
> supplied with LVM 0.9.1-beta-32.

Sadly, this LVM is quite old.  A lot of fixes have been made since this time.

> One server is running as a Samba print and file server for a department.
> The /home directory is an ext2 logical volume consisting of ten real 3390-3
> volumes.  This arrangement has been working fine for about six months.
> 
> This should have found all ten volumes of the volume group and logical
> volumes and rebuilt the information to remount the /home logical volume.
> Instead I get the messages that a) it's scanning all disk devices and b) no
> logical volumes were found.

Can you please send the output of "vgscan -v -d" and "pvdata -avP" for each
disk?  Please send that to both myself and Heinz (mge at sistina.com), as I
don't know if I have the time to look at it.

Cheers, Andreas
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