[linux-lvm] Volume group inconsistent

Zdenek Kabelac zkabelac at redhat.com
Mon Feb 9 09:34:48 UTC 2015


Dne 7.2.2015 v 16:47 Marcos Dutra napsal(a):
> Hi everybody,
>
> Yesterday some storage discs of my VG was with missing status
> /dev/mapper/plt-01                                        platinum       lvm2
> a-m  500.00g   24.95g
>    /dev/mapper/plt-02                                        platinum
> lvm2 a-m  500.00g   12.93g
>
> I tried recover the discs and I used the command:
> # vgextend --restoremissing platinum /dev/mapper/plt-01
>
> It worked, removing missing status, but I did a big mistake, i tried to run
> this command with multiple discs:
> # vgextend --restoremissing platinum /dev/mapper/plt-0[2-9]
>
> After that when I ran pvs command the output shows me checksum error:
>    /dev/mapper/plt-04: Checksum error
>    /dev/mapper/plt-06: Checksum error
>    /dev/mapper/plt-01: Checksum error
>    Couldn't read volume group metadata.
>    /dev/mapper/plt-02: Checksum error
>    Couldn't read volume group metadata.
>    /dev/mapper/plt-03: Checksum error
>
> I tried restore metadata without success:
> # vgcfgrestore -f platinum_02336-1600706364.vg
> <http://platinum_02336-1600706364.vg> platinum


Without having access to your current metadata - it's hard to give
proper advice.


So please attach  'vgcfgbackup' of your current setup.

Have you tried to 'extend' your existing vg   'plt' with referencing LVs from 
itself???
Is 'plt' VG ?

Zdenek




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