[linux-lvm] Error on vgscan & lvremove

Heinz J . Mauelshagen mauelshagen at sistina.com
Sat May 25 05:53:01 UTC 2002


On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 02:32:19PM -0700, bo wrote:
> Heinz,
> 
> I verified these two issues as commented below;
> 
> > >
> > > > A 'workaround' for non-devfs configurations is
> > > >
> > > > ls /dev/*/group | sed 's!/group!!' | xargs rm -r ; vgmknodes
> > > >
> > >
> > > ??Something wrong on "sed 's!/group!!' ", it did not work.
> >
> > Works fine here. Maybe your sed doesn't like the delimiter?
> >
> > Try '/' rather than '!' with sed like "sed 's/\/group//'".
> >
> 
> worked w/o delimiters like
> 
>         ls /dev/*/group | sed 's/group//' | xargs rm -r ; vgmknodes

Yes, trailing / doesn't matter in the rm args :)

> 
> > >
> > > >
> > > > link the single executable statically by running
> > > > "./configure --enable-static_link" (which doesn't use the shared
> libs).
> > > >
> > >
> > > It did not work. I rebuilt LINUX kernel & LVM after
> > > "./configure --enable-static_link".
> > > I got the same result.
> >
> > Did you start with a fresh source tree or run "make distclean"
> > before "./configure --enable-static_link"?
> >
> > >
> 
> Yes, worked with "make distclean".

Good.

> 
> For the backward compatibilty I will try later.

OK.

> 
> One more question related with activating PV,
> 
> Of course I could make them active after removing the volume and recreating
> it.
> As you can notice on the attached log VG is ok,  How could I make these PVs
> active
> w/o removing the volume?
> 
> Did it corrupt the VGDA? any way to recover it?

See below.

> (PS: you can notice TWO "volDisk" group in the following "vgdisplay", should
> be
>         volDisk  & volDisk2 ???)

You still seem to have wrong /dev/ entries :-(
Maybe because of earlier problems, 2 VGs (volDisk and volDisk2) now
have the same internal number?
Please send the output of
"pvdata -a /dev/hd[cd]9 /dev/hda15 /dev/hd[cd]10 /dev/hda16 ; ls -lR /dev"
directly to me (mge at sistina.com).

If volDisk and VolDisk2 have the same internal numbers, we can try "vgscan -f"
which comes with LVM >= 1.0.3.

Regards,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --


> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Bo
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------------
> [root at localhost /root]# pvscan
> pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
> pvscan -- ACTIVE   PV "/dev/md0"   of VG "volRaid0" [1.95 GB / 0 free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE   PV "/dev/md1"   of VG "volRaid0" [1.95 GB / 0 free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE   PV "/dev/md2"   of VG "volRaid0" [1.95 GB / 0 free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE   PV "/dev/md3"   of VG "volRaid1" [992 MB / 0 free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE   PV "/dev/md4"   of VG "volRaid1" [992 MB / 484 MB free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE   PV "/dev/md5"   of VG "volRaid5" [1.95 GB / 992 MB free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE   PV "/dev/md6"   of VG "volRaid5" [1.95 GB / 1.95 GB free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE   PV "/dev/hdc9"  of VG "volDisk"  [992 MB / 992 MB free]
> pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdc10" of VG "volDisk2" [992 MB / 788 MB free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE   PV "/dev/hdd9"  of VG "volDisk"  [992 MB / 992 MB free]
> pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdd10" of VG "volDisk2" [992 MB / 792 MB free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE   PV "/dev/hda15" of VG "volDisk"  [996 MB / 996 MB free]
> pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hda16" of VG "volDisk2" [996 MB / 0 free]
> pvscan -- total: 13 [17.59 GB] / in use: 13 [17.59 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0]
> 
> [root at localhost /root]# pvdisplay /dev/hdc10
> --- Physical volume ---
> PV Name               /dev/hdc10
> VG Name               volDisk2
> PV Size               1000.09 MB [2048193 secs] / NOT usable 4.19 MB [LVM:
> 128 KB]
> PV#                   2
> PV Status             available
> Allocatable           yes
> Cur LV                2
> PE Size (KByte)       4096
> Total PE              248
> Free PE               197
> Allocated PE          51
> PV UUID               b5ybET-1zOq-HPnP-QQda-zjgQ-5avz-aGFMav
> 
> [root at localhost /root]# vgdisplay
> --- Volume group ---
> VG Name               volDisk
> VG Access             read/write
> VG Status             available/resizable
> VG #                  1
> MAX LV                256
> Cur LV                0
> Open LV               0
> MAX LV Size           255.99 GB
> Max PV                256
> Cur PV                3
> Act PV                3
> VG Size               2.91 GB
> PE Size               4 MB
> Total PE              745
> Alloc PE / Size       0 / 0
> Free  PE / Size       745 / 2.91 GB
> VG UUID               7RhXUS-Pw5B-EBYN-GKIM-PO1d-4uD7-4apSvp
> 
> --- Volume group ---
> VG Name               volDisk
> VG Access             read/write
> VG Status             available/resizable
> VG #                  1
> MAX LV                256
> Cur LV                0
> Open LV               0
> MAX LV Size           255.99 GB
> Max PV                256
> Cur PV                3
> Act PV                3
> VG Size               2.91 GB
> PE Size               4 MB
> Total PE              745
> Alloc PE / Size       0 / 0
> Free  PE / Size       745 / 2.91 GB
> VG UUID               7RhXUS-Pw5B-EBYN-GKIM-PO1d-4uD7-4apSvp
> 
> 
> 
> 
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