[linux-lvm] Changing PV position

Benoit benoit.peccatte at enst-bretagne.fr
Fri Dec 19 09:05:01 UTC 2003


On Friday 19 December 2003 11:09, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:08:49PM +0100, Benoit wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm currently using lvm on my box and one disk just died.
> > Then the second disk (hdb) became the first one (hda). The problem is
> > that now I can't get back the physical volume which is on it. Is it
> > possible to tell lvm to force the reading of a PV even if it isn't on the
> > same disk as before ?
>
> vgscan does whyt you are asking for (before trying "vgchange -ay").

I found the problem, my lvm.conf had a filter to dsable the scan of the first 
drive. So now vgchange -ay works. 

Thank you for your help and sorry for bugging you.

Benoit





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