Adding to vg broke it :-(

Hi all,

It seems I'm up to my neck in it again :-(

Briefly, I ran out of space on my LVM mounted /home partition but as I have 1.5GB space free on another disk I thought I'd add that to my volume group and increase the size of /home. All seemed to go OK until reboot upon which my system can only mount / (which is independent of LVM). It appears that /etc/lvmtab /etc/lvmtab.d have all been deleted hence why it can't find LVG "system".
/etc/lvmtab exists but is empty.
/etc/lvmtab.d/ exists but is empty.
/etc/lvmconf/ exists & contains system.conf.1.old and system.conf (newest).

System is SuSE 8.0 Pro. on i386
Harddisks: 2 scsi mounted as

/dev/sdb1        swap
/dev/sdb2        /
/dev/sdb3        LVM

/dev/system/home /home
/dev/system/usr /usr
/dev/system/var /var

sda had an old installation of SuSE on it is
presently unused (and half the size of sdb).

Any guidance as to where to go from here would
be appreciated pls.

Thanks,

Mark Pearson.

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vgcfgrecover them or vgimport the pv's.

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Mark,

what's in your syslog WRT your problem?
What does "vgscan" say?
Does "pvscan" 'see' all your physical volumes making up the volume group?

Regards,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --

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    Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them ***

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