Hi,
I have just accidentialy initialized one of my physical volumes with mkfs.ext3 command.
Did anyone had such problem. Right now I'm dding corrupted pv on a backup partition
and will by trying to recover from /etc/lvm/backup files. Any help or hints will be
appreciated.
Regards,
TK
lvm pv recovery
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Hello,
If your /etc/lvm/backup/ was created with vgcfgbackup command, you can try to do this:
First find out the old UID’s of the partitions, this is in your /etc/lvm/backup/system file, and make sure you get the UID for the physical volumes.
Where system is a name of your volume group.
You can do it with simple commad: pvcreate –restorefile /etc/lvm/backup/system
And recreate partitions, for example:
# pvcreate -u sdSD-2343-SD939-adIda2 /dev/hda6
# vcreate -u dk33kd-929293nd-adfja298a /dev/hdd1
# vgcreate -v system /dev/hda7 /dev/hdd1
# vgcfgrestore -f /etc/lvm/backup/system system
and voila !
If your /etc/lvm/backup/ was created with vgcfgbackup command, you can try to do this:
First find out the old UID’s of the partitions, this is in your /etc/lvm/backup/system file, and make sure you get the UID for the physical volumes.
Where system is a name of your volume group.
You can do it with simple commad: pvcreate –restorefile /etc/lvm/backup/system
And recreate partitions, for example:
# pvcreate -u sdSD-2343-SD939-adIda2 /dev/hda6
# vcreate -u dk33kd-929293nd-adfja298a /dev/hdd1
# vgcreate -v system /dev/hda7 /dev/hdd1
# vgcfgrestore -f /etc/lvm/backup/system system
and voila !