Re: [gentoo-server] LVM2 issues

[David Miller]

Ok it finished the pvmove and all my lv's are now back to a healthy
state.  Gotta love when it works how its supposed to.

-David

On 6/1/05, David Miller <david3d@×××××.com> wrote:
> Well to answer my own question after looking in the man page for
> pvmove I have just run it again with no arguments and it has resumed
> where it left off.  Which will hopefully resurect the one logical
> volume that at the moment cannot be mounted.  I'll let you know how it
> goes.
>
> -David
>
> On 6/1/05, David Miller <david3d@×××××.com> wrote:
> > Well the server did a kernel dump last night while doing the pvmove.
> > Resulting in one logical volume being corrupted in the process.  Not a
> > big deal as the data is on tape.  However now lvdisplay still lists
> > the pvmove0 logical volume.  So how do I clean up what was left
> > behind?
> >
> > -David
> >
> > On 5/31/05, Benjamin Smee <strerror@g.o> wrote:
> > > lo,
> > >
> > > On Tuesday 31 May 2005 17:49, David Miller wrote:
> > > >    I've been running LVM2 now for some time but recently I have not
> > > > been able to update device-mapper or lvm2 without vgscan failing to
> > > > find all the pv's.  So I'm stuck using lvm2-2.00.25 and device-mapper
> > > > 1.00.19-r2.
> > > >    Now one thing to note is that a few of my pv's were added as the
> > > > entire device rather than a partition.  Could this be throwing a newer
> > > > version for a loop since it may first be looking for an LVM partition
> > > > before looking for a vg metadata?  Or have I just overlooked something
> > > > that I need to do in order to migrate my current vg's up to the newer
> > > > versions?
> > >
> > > There is nothing that you need to do to "migrate" your lvm2 partitions to a
> > > newer format, whatever problem that you have will be something local not
> > > generic as many people are successfully using the latest versions of both
> > > with no problems. You could start off running the vgscan in debug mode and
> > > letting us know the relevant output, and if that fails try running it with a
> > > strace or similar util to see precisely what is happening. Other pertinant
> > > questions are things like, are you using udev? with persistant devices (ie
> > > the tarball option in the rc.conf) what version of baselayout are you using,
> > > do you have devfs enabled?
> > >
> > > regards,
> > >
> > > --
> > > Benjamin Smee (strerror)
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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