Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id i29GoG807031 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 11:50:16 -0500 Received: from mwinf0101.wanadoo.fr (smtp1.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.30]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id i29GoEST002586 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 11:50:15 -0500 Received: from wwinf0101 (wwinf0101 [172.22.132.28]) by mwinf0101.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 9CE3FC000082 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 17:50:09 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <12573806.1078851009631.JavaMail.www@wwinf0101> From: "dld.pascal.garcia" Subject: Re: Re: [linux-lvm] Help : vg not accessible (with pvdata result) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: linux-lvm-admin@redhat.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@redhat.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@redhat.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Tue Mar 9 11:48:00 2004 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: linux-lvm@redhat.com Thank you anyway.=20 =20 I have tried to modify the data by myself but I don't understand everything= .=20 But pvdata gives more coherent inofrmtation.=20 =20 I continue some tests because my data is very important.=20 =20 First question :=20 Is there any document that discribes the structure of the data ?=20 =20 I order to reinstall the portable pc, I made a backup of the 3 partitions, = and also backup of the =EF=BF=BDrtition table of the disk. So after dd of t= he=20 partitions I have 3 normal files. =20 =20 I tried a =20 =20 pvimport -f oldvg hda6 hda5 hda1=20 =20 The result is: cannot stat hda6.=20 =20 Question 2 :=20 Is there any way to import the vg directly from these files ?=20 =20 Thanks a lot=20 =20 Pascal Garcia