[linux-lvm] device failure during pvmove

[Bryan Larsen]

On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 at 20:38 Bryan Larsen <bryan at larsen.st> wrote:

> I was in the process of doing a pvmove from /dev/md3 to a new, blank
> /dev/md1 when /dev/md1 failed due to operator stupidity.
>
> I tried doing a pvmove abort, but it complains about a missing device.
> It suggests doing a vgreduce --removemissing but that refuses to proceed
> without a --force because pvmove has placed data onto the broken and
> missing /dev/md1.
>
> So theoretically all my data should still be available on /dev/md3.   Any
> hints on how to proceed?
>

I solved the problem.   I did a vgcfgdump, carefully edited the resulting
file, and used vgcfgrestore to bring things back to life.

cheers,
Bryan
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