[linux-lvm] Big question ...

[Bryn M. Reeves]

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Martial Paupe wrote:
> Hello Bryn,
> 
> On Wednesday 22 November 2006 23:29, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
> I think that you speak about LVM2. I use RHES 3.5 and the version of lvm are 
> lvm-1.0.8-14.
> 

Yes, I was referring to LVM2. LVM1 doesn't have the --removemissing flag
to vgreduce.

By default LVM1 should make a backup of the volume group metadata before
the vgextend command adds a new PV- it's worth checking /etc/lvmconf to
see if you can restore the old metadata.

Use vgcfgrestore -f <file> -n <vgname> -ll to see the physical & logical
volumes in the backups and restore from the last good one (only the
metadata is restored - data in the LVs remains unchanged).

See the man page for vgcfgbackup/vgcfgrestore for more details.

Regards,

Bryn.


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