I am not sure where to begin with this issue. The server is a freshly built CentOS 5x machine with a 3ware 9500 controller, 2x320gb RAID-1 setup with only two partitions, /dev/sda1 for boot as a standard ext3 and /dev/sda2 as a LVM VolGroup00.
I also had another set of 2 older drives from the previous build of the machine, also RAID-1. There was also a VolGroup00 on that drive/partition and so I could not acess unless I switched the cables from the controller. I seem to recall running some LVM tools a while back trying to rename the LV/LG on the older drives so I could mount them but gave up. Everything had been running fine until I removed the two older drives, leaving only the 2x320gb drives with the single LV/LGVolGroup00 as /dev/sda2. But now when I boot there is a disk check failure checking/looking for /dev/sdb2? and even when I re-attach the older drives, I still cant boot from either pair and get LV metadata errors. I figure/HOPE AND PRAY actually, that I can somehow check/edit some LV/LG files somewhere to set things back to a single VolGroup00 using /dev/sda2. I noticed many different files in /etc/lvm/archive and /etc/lvm/backups and looking at those files I see various entries, some I know cant be right and some that look correct for VolGroup00. Can someone suggest an approach to recover my working LVG, and where do I find the current settings file that gets loaded? Is this /etc/lvm/lvm.conf? The contents seem very different than whats in the etc/lvm/archive/VolGroup00_00007.vg etc files or those in /etc/lvm/backups I am really stuck at this point and would be so greatful to anyone that could help. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
