On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:40:33AM -0500, Jacob S wrote: > On Mon, 28 May 2007 11:08:18 -0400 > Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@connexer.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 10:01:32AM -0500, Jacob S wrote: > > > > > > I managed to fix that part of it, eventually, using vgreduce > > > - --removemissing vg_name. However, now lvdisplay shows that there > > > is no logical volume on that vg. Nothing has been done to erase the > > > filesystem and data, so I am hoping I can recover it. But before I > > > simply do an lvcreate and try to get the same settings it had > > > previously, does anyone know of something like vgcfgrestore that > > > would restore the lv from the /etc/lvm/vg_name00000.log config > > > file? > > > > > Hmm. I've never run unto this. Any chance you have a recent backup? > > If not, are you able to look in the shell history and see the exact > > sequence of commands that this unnamed person used to add the new pv? > > No backups... err, oh, happy day! I just found out my backups were > working. I thought that partition had gotten full. > > No sequence of commands in the shell history, unfortunately. > > But now that I know I have pretty good backups, I will just experiment > and see if I can get it working again. If I make any startling > discoveries I will be sure and report them to the list. :-) if you really want to be able to play with it and have the disk space, dd the partitions onto other disks so you can recreate the situation multiple times... A
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