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Am Samstag, 3. November 2007 schrieb ext Daniel Rose: |
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> Hi everyone, |
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> |
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> I have an LVM comprising 2 partitions on a drive I wish to read data |
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> from, and I have a 'main' file from somewhere in /etc/lvm from that old |
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> drive: |
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> |
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> |
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> main { |
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> id = "em7z2K-GhvB-mpW4-YNjE-SiZ7-zia2-PIObh2" |
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> |
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> [...] |
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> physical_volumes { |
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> |
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> pv0 { |
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> id = "6oVVgd-WIVK-qB0y-PXk2-Acu5-ZxcI-gMj5JD" |
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> device = "/dev/md2" # Hint only |
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> status = ["ALLOCATABLE"] # 74.4062 Gigabytes |
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> } |
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> } |
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> |
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> logical_volumes { |
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> root { |
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> id = "Cu9udo-QFcL-72XW-G1OU-1sQA-giBa-WASzs2" |
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> status = ["READ", "WRITE", "VISIBLE"] # |
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> 74.125Gigabytes } |
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> } |
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> |
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> swap { |
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> id = "aM7Jm4-QfMW-4y2c-zCv3-0O6f-CVzz-P3Ebg4" |
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> status = ["READ", "WRITE", "VISIBLE"] #256 |
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> Megabytes } |
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> |
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> Anyway so the lone disk is in a separate box now: |
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> |
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> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System |
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> /dev/hdd1 * 1 13 104391 fd Linux raid |
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> autodetect |
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> /dev/hdd2 14 9729 78043770 fd Linux raid |
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> autodetect |
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> |
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> As it turns out, I can run pvcreate and pvdisplay ok, but a second run |
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> of pvdisplay... and it's gone. vgcreate always fails. |
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> |
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> Any ideas anyone? I'm a little startled at how hard it seems to be to |
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> mount a 'foreign' LVM drive in Linux. |
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Looks like LVM is setup on top of a software RAID. Looks like you need to |
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use the sw raid tools first to bring up the RAID set. |
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Bye... |
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Dirk |
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