lost VG after some rearranging (help needed)
Hello all,
I've lost access to my root on LVM system and hope that with some help of readers of this list can recover from this.
Up until yesterday I had a system with 2 VG:
"vg" on partition 3 of primary drive
"titan_vg" on whole secondary drive
"vg" contains LVs: "titan_vg" contains LVs:
/dev/vg/home /dev/titan_vg/hugepart
/dev/vg/usr /dev/titan_vg/biggerpart
/dev/vg/var /dev/titan_vg/largepart
/dev/vg/tmp
/dev/vg/bigpart
/dev/vg/hugepart
Yesterday afternoon I started to re-arange (deactivating and unmounting where needed):
lvremove /dev/titan_vg/biggerpart
lvremove /dev/titan_vg/largepart
cp -av /dev/vg/hugepart/* /dev/titan_vg/hugepart/vg_hugepart/
lvremove /dev/vg/hugepart
vgmerge vg titan_vg
lvextend -L+4000M /dev/vg/home
ext2resize /dev/vg/home
lvextend -L+4000M /dev/vg/bigpart
ext2resize /dev/vg/bigpart
mv /dev/vg/hugepart/vg_hugepart/* /dev/vg/hugepart/
So far everything works fine. No problems. The I noticed that/dev/vg/usr has no more capacity. Now this cannot be resized just like that because it is in use. So I decide to prepare for a single user reboot without mounting /dev/vg/usr. The idea being that I can then resize this LV and the reboot again in multiuser mode.
However when rebooting Linux does not find the root LV! vgscan reports it cannot find any VGs!
I have an emergency system on /dev/hda2 which is not LVM dependant. So I boot into this partition. I've had some LVM troubles in the past and used this emergency system to recover. On this partition I have some old config files which contain old configuration info which has been used in the past recover form similar trouble.
However these config files are not up to date due to the changes of the past months. Some basics (like /dev/vg/root) however have not changed and I was hoping (as was the case before) to do a vgcfgrestore and at least get a bootable root_on_LVM system back. From there, do another vgcfgrestore using more recent config files available on the root_on_LVM system and thus get the most recent and uptodate configuration back.
So I restored a previous configuration but alas,.. not with the hoped result.
Can anyone advise me how to preceed from here?
Thanks in advance!
Jan Rhebergen
PS: Here is some informative output:
titan:/etc/lvmconf# pvscan pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3" is associated to unknown VG "vg" (run vgscan) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc" is associated to unknown VG "vg" (run vgscan) pvscan -- total: 2 [149.77 GB] / in use: 2 [149.77 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0]
titan:/etc/lvmconf# lvm vgscan Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... VG data differs between PVs /dev/hda3 and /dev/hdb Volume group "vg" not found
titan:/etc/lvmconf# pvdata /dev/hdb --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hdb VG Name vg PV Size 111.79 GB [234441648 secs] / NOT usable 32.19 MB [LVM: 137 KB] PV# 2 PV Status NOT available Allocatable yes Cur LV 1 PE Size (KByte) 32768 Total PE 3576 Free PE 528 Allocated PE 3048 PV UUID r5BNbe-7xyz-SS53-89Vw-cHf0-wkGM-uChV9B
--- Volume group ---
VG Name VG Access read/write VG Status NOT available/resizable VG # 1 MAX LV 256 Cur LV 9 Open LV 0 MAX LV Size 2 TB Max PV 256 Cur PV 2 Act PV 1 VG Size 149.69 GB PE Size 32 MB Total PE 4790 Alloc PE / Size 4015 / 125.47 GB Free PE / Size 775 / 24.22 GB VG UUID IqNxPQ-yO6B-d3qf-xZ6d-hFYD-fXNq-98dYNQ
--- List of logical volumes ---
pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 0 is empty
pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 1 is empty
pvdata -- logical volume "/dev/titan/hugepart" at offset 2
pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 254 is empty pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 255 is empty --- List of physical volume UUIDs ---
001: E2IXqI-x6Dr-NIBk-EnhJ-UZt8-gcTn-n0YCoG
002: r5BNbe-7xyz-SS53-89Vw-cHf0-wkGM-uChV9B