Craig Hagerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But sdb1 had ALREADY been set up. Actually I had formatted it with > ext3, then followed the howto (pvcreate, vgcreate, lvcreate, mount) to > set up LVM and then copied all my old data over. So I then set the > partition type to LVM on a disc that already was set up with a VG, LV.
Changing the partition type does not touch the partition itself. It just sets a flag in the partition table. > > ...now vgdisplay gives me > > $ vgdisplay > Couldn't find device with uuid 'ZHl4Ak-mGS4-wFlF-4neF-G1Ed-GxWB-C4Smj6'. > Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group media_vg. > Couldn't find device with uuid 'ZHl4Ak-mGS4-wFlF-4neF-G1Ed-GxWB-C4Smj6'. > Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group media_vg. > Volume group "media_vg" doesn't exist > > ...but pvdisplay gives me encouraging news. I just don't know what to > do with this information to try to recover. > > $ pvdisplay > Couldn't find device with uuid 'ZHl4Ak-mGS4-wFlF-4neF-G1Ed-GxWB-C4Smj6'. > --- Physical volume --- > PV Name /dev/sdb1 > VG Name media_vg > PV Size 233.75 GB / not usable 0 > Allocatable yes > PE Size (KByte) 4096 > Total PE 59841 > Free PE 193 > Allocated PE 59648 > PV UUID rlnV4y-B4eJ-Pyc0-RLJm-2Zbv-t04C-dxzU1A sdb1 is OK. > > --- Physical volume --- > PV Name unknown device > VG Name media_vg > PV Size 186.30 GB / not usable 0 > Allocatable yes > PE Size (KByte) 4096 > Total PE 47694 > Free PE 47694 > Allocated PE 0 > PV UUID ZHl4Ak-mGS4-wFlF-4neF-G1Ed-GxWB-C4Smj6 LVM does not find sda2. What does pvdisplay /dev/sda2 say? I guess LVM only scans devices that have its type set to LVM. So it might be enough to just do that for sda2. Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
