Urgent, Please help LVM-krash
Hi all!
Yesterday I krashed my lvm. This is the first time I'm having real problems with it.
This is what happened.
I was going to add a new lv and used the lvcreate-command as usual. This time I forgot the -n switch and when I realized that I hit ctrl-c.. BAD idea!
Now my vg is gone. I can't get it back whatever I try. Any help would be VERY appreciated.
A vgscan just sais "no volume groups found" or something like that. doing a pvdisplay on the pv's in my vg gives me that they should be in "diskvg" (which is correct). I've tried doing vgcfgrestore from the backups in /etc/lvmconf but that doesn't help. vgscan still doesn't find it.
I looked at the HOWTO and found a program named uuid_fixer that looked like it could solve the problem but it died with an "illegal instruction" regardless of if I used the precompiled version or compiled it myself.
This is on a mandrake 8.1-box with lvm, xfs, reiserfs and devfs so there are alot of things to think about.
When doing stuff I did the following first:
reboot into single user, remount / rw, mount /proc, restore some
standar-stuff into /dev, and start devfsd
After that I tried vgcfgrestore, vgscan, uuid_fixer and just about everything I could think or.
Please please please help me. Can anyone solve this. There are over 60 GB of stuff on this computer and it needs to work TODAY :(
/Erik
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Hi all!
Yesterday I krashed my lvm. This is the first time I'm having real problems with it.
This is what happened.
I was going to add a new lv and used the lvcreate-command as usual. This time I forgot the -n switch and when I realized that I hit ctrl-c.. BAD idea!
Erik,
that's actually starneg, because the tools intercept ctrl-c and the like :-(
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Now my vg is gone. I can't get it back whatever I try. Any help would be VERY appreciated.
A vgscan just sais "no volume groups found" or something like that. doing a pvdisplay on the pv's in my vg gives me that they should be in "diskvg" (which is correct). I've tried doing vgcfgrestore from the backups in
/etc/lvmconfbut that doesn't help. vgscan still doesn't find it.
Did you run "pvcreate -ff" on all of your PVs belonging to diskvg *before* you run vgcfgrestore on all of them? vgscan afetrwards.
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I looked at the HOWTO and found a program named
uuid_fixerthat looked like it could solve the problem but it died with an "illegal instruction" regardless of if I used the precompiled version or compiled it myself.This is on a mandrake 8.1-box with lvm, xfs, reiserfs and devfs so there are alot of things to think about.
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When doing stuff I did the following first:
reboot into single user, remount / rw, mount /proc, restore some
standar-stuff into /dev, and start devfsdAfter that I tried vgcfgrestore, vgscan,
uuid_fixerand just about everything I could think or.
I think it was just the lack of pvcreate before vgcfgrestore.
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Please please please help me. Can anyone solve this. There are over 60 GB of stuff on this computer and it needs to work TODAY :(
/Erik
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Hi all!
Yesterday I krashed my lvm. This is the first time I'm having real problems with it.
This is what happened.
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I was going to add a new lv and used the lvcreate-command as usual. This time I forgot the -n switch and when I realized that I hit ctrl-c.. BAD idea!
Erik,
that's actually starneg, because the tools intercept ctrl-c and the like :-(
Hmm.. well .. it did break the program for me.. Maybe it's an old version with mandrake 8.1??
I know that the kernel lvm-stuff is NOT the latest version. Is it ok to run an old version or do I risk damage to the system??
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Now my vg is gone. I can't get it back whatever I try. Any help would be VERY appreciated.
A vgscan just sais "no volume groups found" or something like that. doing a pvdisplay on the pv's in my vg gives me that they should be in "diskvg" (which is correct). I've tried doing vgcfgrestore from the backups in
/etc/lvmconfbut that doesn't help. vgscan still doesn't find it.Did you run "pvcreate -ff" on all of your PVs belonging to diskvg *before* you run vgcfgrestore on all of them? vgscan afetrwards.
At first I didn't, but I tried that later. Same thing.
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I looked at the HOWTO and found a program named
uuid_fixerthat looked like it could solve the problem but it died with an "illegal instruction" regardless of if I used the precompiled version or compiled it myself.This is on a mandrake 8.1-box with lvm, xfs, reiserfs and devfs so there are alot of things to think about.
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When doing stuff I did the following first:
reboot into single user, remount / rw, mount /proc, restore some
standar-stuff into /dev, and start devfsdAfter that I tried vgcfgrestore, vgscan,
uuid_fixerand just about everything I could think or.I think it was just the lack of pvcreate before vgcfgrestore.
Perhaps.
But I think there was another problem. I've had a few small problems with xfs under mandrake 8.1. Sometimes I've lost some files. I really don't know why but the data in them have been corrupted or they were 0 bytes in size. I have been really mean to the computer and killing the power on it while it was running and so on. But that was never a problem under reiserfs so I'm back with 100% reiserfs now. I think the files in /etc/lvmconf were strange.
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Please please please help me. Can anyone solve this. There are over 60 GB of stuff on this computer and it needs to work TODAY :(
Like I said I needed that computer back the same day. I ended up reinstalling the box. Loosing the data I had on it. Luckily most data was either not important or could be restored from backup. The only thing I really lost was the system with all it's services and the like. So I guess I need to resetup samba/appleshare/web/nfs/dns and so on.
/Erik
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