Did you use pvcreate -u .... on the drive? Without it, it won't work. Also - you *must* use a backup configuration file with all the data in it.
Post one of these online, and I would be able to assist further. Ez 2010/10/12 Boris shtrasman <borissh1...@gmail.com> > /dev/sda8 had been wiped out totally > The other restore fails : > > vgcfgrestore -f fileserver fileserver > > File descriptor 13 (socket:[7450]) leaked on vgcfgrestore invocation. > Parent PID 3952: bash > > Couldn't find device with uuid fVkJmY-pdwD-bub8-URE8-lNc2-eyhr-IIxIez. > Cannot restore Volume Group fileserver with 1 PVs marked as missing. > Restore failed. > > Today ill try to create again an image of the drive (dd all the drive ) in > order not make any more damage by restore attempts, > Yesterday I found out that the harddrive going to die (errors from the > kernel). > > > 2010/10/12 Etzion Bar-Noy <eza...@tournament.org.il> > > Bad. Depends on the amount of damage you have created, the following >> procedure would work: >> I believe the failure is in /dev/sda8, around 30GB, based on your >> fileserver lvm backup file. Upload an older one for me to be sure. >> pvcreate -u GBsXFQ-RdXS-iMhp-Phle-iqfM-5571-aJgQAa /dev/sda8 >> >> (if successful), try the following: >> in /etc/lvm/backup, find a file describing a good configuration, before >> you attempted to force-remove the PV. You can perform the following action >> then: >> vgcfgrestore -f <the file you have found, and hopefully uploaded here> >> fileserver >> >> If successful, run: >> vgchange -ay fileserver >> and you should be able to mount whatever LV you did not run over with >> zeros. >> >> Good luck >> Ez >> >> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Oron Peled <o...@actcom.co.il> wrote: >> >>> On Monday, 11 בOctober 2010 11:50:45 Boris shtrasman wrote: >>> > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Yedidyah Bar-David < >>> > > Not gparted, gpart: >>> > > http://www.brzitwa.de/mb/gpart/index.html >>> > > "Gpart is a tool which tries to guess the primary partition table of >>> a >>> > > PC-type hard disk in case the primary partition table in sector 0 is >>> > > damaged, incorrect or deleted." >>> > > >>> > > If you fail, and still want to resurrect specific files, you can also >>> try >>> > > MagicRescue: >>> > > http://www.itu.dk/people/jobr/magicrescue/ >>> > >>> > looks promising thank you >>> > And i was dding file by file :-( from the disk .. >>> > >>> >>> Just take notice that sequencial logical volume (partition) may be not >>> sequencial on the physical volume (There's a logical extent to physical >>> extent mapping). >>> >>> However, there is a good chance most/all of your partition is >>> sequencial, especially if you created the volume group and the logical >>> volumes when the disk was empty (e.g: during installation) without >>> requiring a striped logical volume (it's not the default). >>> >>> Good luck, >>> >>> -- >>> Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 >>> o...@actcom.co.il >>> http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron<http://users.actcom.co.il/%7Eoron> >>> "... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, >>> lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their >>> C programs." >>> -- Robert Firth >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Linux-il mailing list >>> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >>> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-il mailing list >> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >> >> > > > -- > -- > -- Boris Shtrasman ------------ > |Gnu/Linux Software developer | > | IM : bori...@jabber.org | > | URL : myrtfm.blogspot.com| > _______________________________ > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >
_______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
