[linux-lvm] Severe problem: data lost while adding a partition
Heinz J . Mauelshagen
mauelshagen at sistina.com
Fri Feb 7 08:31:02 UTC 2003
Sander,
if you want to redo from scratch, "pvcreate -ff" the disks/partitions
you want to use with LVM. Partitions need to have type 0x8E (Linux LVM).
Regards,
Heinz -- The LVM Guy --
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 10:48:27PM +0100, Sander Alberink wrote:
> Heinz,
>
> Thanks for your reply, but I have some more questions....
>
> >can you tell what you mean with
> >'...something went horribly wron during install...' ?
> >
> >Any particular messages which can help analyzing this ?
> >
> >
> Well, actually no real error messages, just a GUI installer that didn't
> do what I expected it to do. However, the LVM was hosed already at the
> time I realized something was wrong
>
> >If you don't have any, take your most recent LVM metedata from the archive
> >(/etc/lvconf/ ; you've got a backup, right ?), figure out disks used as PVs
> >with "vgcfgrestore -ll ..." and run "pvcreate -ff ..." and vgcfgresto
> >on all of them. The archive you use shall _not_ include the recently added
> >disk.
> >
> Well, guess what? The LVM used in Mandrake doesn't make a backup copy.
> And of course I hadn't executed it myself.... So as such I cannot
> restore the exact configuration. Is pvcreate still the way to go then?
> Please advice!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Sander
>
> >
> >Regards,
> >Heinz -- The LVM Guy --
> >
> >
> >On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 01:14:28AM +0100, Sander Alberink wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hello all,
> >>
> >>I write to you with a rather grave problem. I have a small LVM setup at
> >>home, consisting of 4 partitions. These were created by the Mandrake 8.2
> >> installation system. After deciding to upgrade the system to Mandrake
> >>9.0, I found out that I had another partition lying around which was
> >>also prepared for LVM use. I had meant for that disc to use later on in
> >> a different scheme for my /usr partition but never got around to do it.
> >>However, during installation I decided to add it to the LVM. The idea
> >>was that I would extend the FS later (of course, I was not going to
> >>involve this LVM setup in the rest of the installation, I would do all
> >>that manually.)
> >>
> >>But as you probably guessed, something went horribly wrong during
> >>install time and my LVM setup is properly hosed. I wanted to re-create
> >>the setup, but alas: I forgot which was the disk that I added.
> >>
> >>The name of the LV (there was only 1) was home, the disks involved were
> >>/dev/hda1, /dev/hda[4-6].
> >>
> >>Output of pvscan:
> >>----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
> >>pvscan -- walking through all physical volumes found
> >>pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1" is
> >>associated to an unknown VG (run vgscan)
> >>pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4" is
> >>associated to an unknown VG (run vgscan)
> >>pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5" is
> >>associated to an unknown VG (run vgscan)
> >>pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6" is
> >>associated to an unknown VG (run vgscan)
> >>pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7" is
> >>associated to an unknown VG (run vgscan)
> >>pvscan -- total: 5 [1.97 GB] / in use: 5 [1.97 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0]
> >>
> >>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>output of vgscan:
> >>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
> >>vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created
> >>vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume
> >>group
> >>
> >>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>output of pvdisplay /dev/hda1 (this partition belonged to the LV for sure)
> >>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>pvdisplay -- getting physical volume size
> >>--- Physical volume ---
> >>PV Name /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
> >>VG Name home
> >>PV Size 399.62 MB / NOT usable 3.62 MB [LVM: 121.00 KB]
> >>PV# 1
> >>PV Status NOT available
> >>Allocatable yes (but full)
> >>Cur LV 1
> >>PE Size (KByte) 4096
> >>Total PE 99
> >>Free PE 0
> >>Allocated PE 99
> >>PV UUID NCf9U6-nqVy-zn3K-upFo-S0PB-SFqb-o2ERjs
> >>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>If you need any further information, please let me know!
> >>I do hope you can help me with this, since I stand to loose a lot of
> >>personal data, of which exists no backup (of course, you guys probably
> >>hear this all the time).
> >>
> >>Best regards,
> >>
> >>Sander Alberink
> >>
> >>
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> >>
> >
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