From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] vgcfgrestore and bootstrap Message-ID: <20030924144818.D2618@sistina.com> References: <200309231754.20420.gingiabios@email.it> <20030924103749.C2618@sistina.com> <200309241414.47229.gingiabios@email.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200309241414.47229.gingiabios@email.it>; from gingiabios@email.it on Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 02:14:47PM +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Wed Sep 24 07:59:01 2003 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 02:14:47PM +0200, Gingia wrote: > Alle 10:37, mercoled=EC 24 settembre 2003, Heinz J . Mauelshagen ha scr= itto: > > Gingia, > > > > the normal procedure is "vgscan ; vgchange -ay ; mount -a" > > rather than vgcfgrestore before vgchange. > ... > > Have you tried "vgscan ; vgchange -ay ; mount -a" before ? > > (keep in mind, that vgscan needs space below /etc/ to store metadata > > copies) >=20 > I controlled the script of bootstrap to see if there is the apropiated= entry,=20 > and it seems is ok, i also re-started the server . > I tried "vgscan" and i have the output: > invalidate :dirty buffer=20 > invalidate :busy buffer =20 > (any time) > vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "7etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created=20 > vgscan -- WARNING: this programm doe not do a VGDA backup of your group Can you send the "vgscan -d" output of this case to me directly, please (mge@sistina.com) ? Probably some i2o devices scanning flaw. >=20 > after i do : > vgchange -ay=20 > and the output was: > vgchange -- no volume group found=20 >=20 > so i made the restore: > vgcfgrestore ......... > the ouptput was=20 > vgcfgrestore -- VGDA for "Volume1" successfully restored to phisical vo= lume=20 > "/dev/i2o/hda3"=20 > vgcfgrestore -- you may not have an actual backup of restored group "v= olume1" >=20 > then i can do vgchange -ay and go on=20 >=20 > This is all , was it the matter? >=20 > Thank you >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ --=20 Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D= -=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-= =3D-=3D- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D= -=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-= =3D-=3D-