topic Re: rebuild the logical volume from the beginning without formatting the LVM in Operating System - Linux

rebuild the logical volume from the beginning without formatting the LVM

Fadia Almarei — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:01:53 GMT

how to rebuild the logical volume from the beginning without formatting the LVM , in RHEL AS 4 , with EMC devices

Re: rebuild the logical volume from the beginning without formatting the LVM

Matti_Kurkela — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:54:30 GMT

If possible, use vgcfgrestore.

The LVM utilities automatically create backups of the LVM configuration in /etc/lvm/backup and /etc/lvm/archive. These can be used with vgcfgrestore to restore missing or corrupted LVM metadata.

MK

Re: rebuild the logical volume from the beginning without formatting the LVM

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:01:09 GMT

Shalom Fadia,

Could you provide a full problem description. It would assist in providing you a thoughtful answer.

SEP

Re: rebuild the logical volume from the beginning without formatting the LVM

Fadia Almarei — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:24:43 GMT

the following is the output
[root@NODE-I dev]# vgcfgrestore vg01
Couldn't find device with uuid 'UU6ZvI-4Mm3-bye8-YAOD-kvE1-1E9J-PUgWnt'.
Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group vg01.
Restore failed.

, the description maily that non of the devices that was working and the volume group consists of are configured on them and non of the volume groups appears , i will attach the dmesg file