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From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] recover from disk crash lvm2 group
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:02:34
Message-Id: 1217678551.4957.3.camel@blackwidow.nbk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] recover from disk crash lvm2 group by Eray Aslan
1 On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 12:49 +0300, Eray Aslan wrote:
2 > Hello,
3 >
4 > One of the disks in a 3-disk lvm2 group crashed. I would like to
5 > continue with the remaining 2 disks. How to remove the non-functioning
6 > disk from the group and re-create the volume with 2 disks? I have backups.
7 >
8 > # vgremove home_vol
9 > Couldn't find device with uuid 'D0HvzD-Vw9B-40Vd-NSn1-RW0d-SlVF-pM4jOH'.
10 > Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group home_vol.
11 > Couldn't find device with uuid 'D0HvzD-Vw9B-40Vd-NSn1-RW0d-SlVF-pM4jOH'.
12 > Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group home_vol.
13 > Couldn't find device with uuid 'D0HvzD-Vw9B-40Vd-NSn1-RW0d-SlVF-pM4jOH'.
14 > Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group home_vol.
15 > Couldn't find device with uuid 'D0HvzD-Vw9B-40Vd-NSn1-RW0d-SlVF-pM4jOH'.
16 > Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group home_vol.
17 > Volume group "home_vol" not found
18 >
19 > # vgscan
20 > Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
21 > Couldn't find device with uuid 'D0HvzD-Vw9B-40Vd-NSn1-RW0d-SlVF-pM4jOH'.
22 > Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group home_vol.
23 > Couldn't find device with uuid 'D0HvzD-Vw9B-40Vd-NSn1-RW0d-SlVF-pM4jOH'.
24 > Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group home_vol.
25 > Couldn't find device with uuid 'D0HvzD-Vw9B-40Vd-NSn1-RW0d-SlVF-pM4jOH'.
26 > Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group home_vol.
27 > Couldn't find device with uuid 'D0HvzD-Vw9B-40Vd-NSn1-RW0d-SlVF-pM4jOH'.
28 > Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group home_vol.
29 > Volume group "home_vol" not found
30
31 The lvm(8) man page lists the --partial flag. A quick Google search
32 reveals:
33
34 vgchange -ay --partial
35
36 -a

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Re: [gentoo-user] recover from disk crash lvm2 group Eray Aslan <eray.aslan@×××××××.tr>