[linux-lvm] Removing PV with disk errors from VG

[kalle at idlar.nu]

At 16:32 2002-03-11 +0100, you wrote:

>Kalle,
>
>well that's a bug in 1.0.3 which will be fixed in 1.0.4.
>If you wnat to try it at your own risk, check out LVM1 CVS and
>try "pvmove -i" again.
>
>1.0.4 will hopefully be released this week :)

Great! :)

btw.. do yo (or prehaps someone else?) know if there exist some program for 
displaying what file occupies a given PE/disk sector?
I have looked around but havnt found anything useful. Alhouth I found a 
prog called bmap, but that only displayed the sectors of a given file.


/Regards
Kalle



>Regards,
>Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --
>
>
>On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 04:40:19PM +0100, kalle at idlar.nu wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I have built a VG from a couple of disks and have now discovered that one
> > disk is not working right. Im getting a lot of theese kinds of errors:
> >
> > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hdd), sector 2321462
> > hdd: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
> > hdd: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=12571028,
> > sector=2321558
> >
> > So I would like to move the data that still can be accessed from the bad
> > disk and remove the disk from the VG.
> > When I run pvmove /dev/hdd1 I get theese errors:
> > pvmove -- ERROR "Input/output error" reading sector 130688 from "/dev/hdd1"
> > pvmove -- ERROR "Input/output error" reading sector 130689 from "/dev/hdd1"
> > pvmove -- ERROR "Input/output error" reading sector 130690 from "/dev/hdd1"
> > pvmove -- ERROR "Input/output error" reading sector 130691 from "/dev/hdd1"
> > pvmove -- ERROR "Input/output error" reading sector 130692 from "/dev/hdd1"
> > pvmove -- ERROR "Input/output error" reading sector 130693 from "/dev/hdd1"
> > pvmove -- ERROR "Input/output error" reading sector 130694 from "/dev/hdd1"
> > pvmove -- ERROR "Input/output error" reading sector 130695 from "/dev/hdd1"
> > pvmove -- ERROR reading input physical volume "/dev/hdd1" (still 393216
> > bytes to read)
> > pvmove -- ERROR "pv_move_pe(): read input PV" moving physical extents
> >
> > I have tried to upgrade to the 1.0.3 tools and doing "pvmove -i /dev/hdd1"
> > but I still get the same errors.
> > Im using lvm-mod version 1.0.1-rc4 with kernel 2.4.17.
> >
> > Im willing to accept data loss, so is it possible to force the removal of
> > the  PV, even if its not empty?
> >
> > Can I somehow display the files that occupies a PV? so that I know which
> > files will be lost.
> >
> > What if I just remove the /dev/hdd1 partition with fdisk? will that 
> mess up
> > the whole VG?
> >
> > any help appreciateed!
> >
> >
> > /Regards kalle...
> >
> >
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