Help.
I had a VG that had three PVs in it, one of the PVs failed, is there any way to trick the VG into thinking it only has two PVs in it so I can *try* to mount it and see what data I can pull off the remainder. The file system is reiserfs, and it was the third PV in the group that died.
Thanks in advance,
Ben Konosky
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- Ben Konosky <[email protected]> on 07/21/01 23:36:47 -0500:
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I had a VG that had three PVs in it, one of the PVs failed, is there any way to trick the VG into thinking it only has two PVs in it so I can *try* to mount it and see what data I can pull off the remainder. The file system is reiserfs, and it was the third PV in the group that died.
vgexport and import it back with the valid PV's. You'll loose whatever was on the missing PV. If any of the LV's spanned PV's then you'll loose those LV's.
sl
vgexport -a gives no volume groups found. vgexport myvg gives volume group "myvg" doesn't exist.
And yes, I had one LV spanning across all three PVs.
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- Ben Konosky <[email protected]> on 07/21/01 23:36:47 -0500:
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I had a VG that had three PVs in it, one of the PVs failed, is there any way to trick the VG into thinking it only has two PVs in it so I can *try* to mount it and see what data I can pull off the remainder. The file system is reiserfs, and it was the third PV in the group that died.
vgexport and import it back with the valid PV's. You'll loose whatever was on the missing PV. If any of the LV's spanned PV's then you'll loose those LV's.
sl
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Quoted 4 lines · Ben Konosky
I had a VG that had three PVs in it, one of the PVs failed, is there any way to trick the VG into thinking it only has two PVs in it so I can *try* to mount it and see what data I can pull off the remainder. The file system is reiserfs, and it was the third PV in the group that died.
Ben,
you mention in our other e-mail, that you had an LV spanning all 3 disks containig a reiserfs.
If your PV is lost *and* you don't have an actual backup, you'll loose fs data anyway :-(
If you still want to get the LV *partially* back, you need a replacement disk/partition of the same size the gone PV had, vgcfgrestore(8) the LVM metadata to it and run "vgscan;vgchange -ay".
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=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-That didn't work :( Now that I look at it, that drive must have been the first one in the VG/LV :( At least I had most, but not all of the data on that LV backed up. Well, now I know better than to use a drive in a LV that used to be in a computer that was under adverse conditions(like my car), without keeping all the data backed up.
Thanks for all the help,
Ben Konosky
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Quoted 2 lines · Ben Konosky
I had a VG that had three PVs in it, one of the PVs failed, is there any way to trick the VG into thinking it only has two PVs in it so I can *try* to mount it and see what data I can pull off the remainder. The file system is reiserfs, and it was the third PV in the group that died.
Ben,
you mention in our other e-mail, that you had an LV spanning all 3 disks containig a reiserfs.
If your PV is lost *and* you don't have an actual backup, you'll loose fs data anyway :-(If you still want to get the LV *partially* back, you need a replacement disk/partition of the same size the gone PV had, vgcfgrestore(8) the LVM metadata to it and run "vgscan;vgchange -ay".
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Thanks in advance,
Ben Konosky
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