vgcfgrestore with empty lvmtab

[Gregory Thomas]

I lost my lvmtab entries (long story).
When I try to vgcfgrestore it says the /dev/dsk/xxxxx entry is not in the lvmtab (which is true). I did a vgscan -a but it didn't populate the lvmtab. The lvmtab.conf files still exist. The ioscan can still see the disks. What else can I try?
Thanks...Jim

[A. Clay Stephenson]

The only thing that I can suggest is mv /etc/lvmtab /etc/lvmtab.save before running vgscan. That should at least populate lvmtab.

[Patrick Wallek]

To recreate your /etc/lvmtab:

# mv /etc/lvmtab /etc/lvmtab.bad

# vgscan -av

You should now have /etc/lvmtab back as it should be.

[Sunil Sharma_1]

Hi,

Don't worry be happy ...
use vgscan -av and you will get your lvmtab back...

vgcfgrestor is usefull to create lvm structure on disk if you replace with new one.

Sunil