lvrename and lvremove are likely what you are looking for. Also, is there anything in /etc/fstab that revrences the old array?
Anything of interest in /var/log/dmesg? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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
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