Hello all, I have a computer running Debian which I had some partitions under LVM. Mostly my Home and Work folder. After a power loss my lvm stopped working and I can't seen to find a way to recover data. I've tried lots of FAQs, tutorials, etc. Nothing seens to work.
Here is what it looks like: :~# uname -a Linux freemmg 2.4.25-1-386 #2 Wed Apr 14 19:38:08 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux :~# :~# dpkg -l |grep lvm ii lvm-common 1.5.17 The Logical Volume Manager for Linux (common ii lvm10 1.0.8-10 The Logical Volume Manager for Linux :~# ]:~# pvscan pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) pvscan -- no valid physical volumes found :~# :~# vgscan vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume group :~# Ok, what I tried to do: :~# pvcreate -ff /dev/hda3 pvcreate -- WARNING: forcing physical volume creation on "/dev/hda3" pvcreate -- physical volume "/dev/hda3" successfully created :~# :~# pvscan pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) pvscan -- no valid physical volumes found :~# No idea why it wont work. :~# vgcfgrestore -v -n freemmg -b 1 /dev/hda3 vgcfgrestore -- INFO: using backup file "/etc/lvmconf/freemmg.conf.1.old" vgcfgrestore -- locking logical volume manager vgcfgrestore -- restoring volume group "freemmg" from "/etc/lvmconf/freemmg.conf.1.old" vgcfgrestore -- checking existence of "/etc/lvmconf/freemmg.conf.1.old" vgcfgrestore -- reading volume group data for "freemmg" from "/etc/lvmconf/freemmg.conf.1.old" vgcfgrestore -- reading physical volume data for "freemmg" from "/etc/lvmconf/freemmg.conf.1.old" vgcfgrestore -- reading logical volume data for "freemmg" from "/etc/lvmconf/freemmg.conf.1.old" vgcfgrestore -- checking volume group consistency of "freemmg" vgcfgrestore -- checking volume group consistency of "freemmg" vgcfgrestore -- reading physical volume "/dev/hda3" vgcfgrestore -- ERROR "pv_read(): pv_create_name_from_kdev_t" reading physical volume "/dev/hda3" :~# :~# pvdata /dev/hda3 --- NEW Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hda3 VG Name PV Size 66.06 GB [138544560 secs] PV# 0 PV Status NOT available Allocatable NO Cur LV 0 PE Size (KByte) 0 Total PE 0 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 0 PV UUID TonPmb-gO77-WiEE-8Tqp-nwCd-zi04-9Dv4ly --- Volume group --- VG Name VG Access read/write VG Status NOT available/resizable VG # 0 MAX LV 256 Cur LV 2 Open LV 0 MAX LV Size 2 TB Max PV 256 Cur PV 1 Act PV 1 VG Size 66.03 GB PE Size 32 MB Total PE 2113 Alloc PE / Size 2113 / 66.03 GB Free PE / Size 0 / 0 VG UUID sFMAaS-slYD-HGtk-rnh2-TbjY-Z0xy-lx0ICs --- List of logical volumes --- pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 0 is inconsistent pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 1 is empty pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 2 is empty pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 3 is empty pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 4 is empty pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 5 is empty pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 6 is empty pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 7 is empty pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 8 is empty pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 9 is empty pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 10 is empty pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 11 is empty pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 12 is empty pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 13 is inconsistent pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 14 is inconsistent pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 15 is inconsistent pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 16 is inconsistent pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 17 is inconsistent pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 18 is inconsistent pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 19 is inconsistent pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 20 is inconsistent pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 21 is inconsistent pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 22 is inconsistent pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 23 is inconsistent pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 24 is inconsistent pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 25 is inconsistent pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 26 is empty pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 27 is empty ... list goes on until --- List of physical volume UUIDs --- Segmentation fault :~# So, any ideas? Any help would be apreciated. Thanks Fernando Costa
