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Author:  mediathreat [ Mon Aug 11, 2008 10:48 am ]
Post subject:  LVM gone toast - volume group wont mount

I was prepping to upgrade last night and I tried to add a hard drive to LVM via webmin hosed my LVM and made all my data disappear. Anyone have any clues how I can get it back? I have an unknown device currently listed in the physical volumes that prehaps is causing a major fail in mounting the VG? Any ideas?

thanks in advance

root@stingray:~# vgdisplay --partial --verbose
Partial mode. Incomplete volume groups will be activated read-only.
Finding all volume groups
Finding volume group "vg"
Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices
Couldn't find device with uuid 'kyZtSH-Ywbw-0fmZ-3vRD-2z3y-ZPuw-SaMsi6'.
Couldn't find device with uuid 'kyZtSH-Ywbw-0fmZ-3vRD-2z3y-ZPuw-SaMsi6'.
Couldn't find device with uuid 'kyZtSH-Ywbw-0fmZ-3vRD-2z3y-ZPuw-SaMsi6'.
Couldn't find device with uuid 'kyZtSH-Ywbw-0fmZ-3vRD-2z3y-ZPuw-SaMsi6'.
Couldn't find device with uuid 'kyZtSH-Ywbw-0fmZ-3vRD-2z3y-ZPuw-SaMsi6'.
Couldn't find device with uuid 'kyZtSH-Ywbw-0fmZ-3vRD-2z3y-ZPuw-SaMsi6'.
--- Volume group ---
VG Name vg
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 3
Metadata Sequence No 17
VG Access read
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 1
Open LV 0
Max PV 0
Cur PV 4
Act PV 4
VG Size 2.33 TB
PE Size 8.00 MB
Total PE 305593
Alloc PE / Size 216168 / 1.65 TB
Free PE / Size 89425 / 698.63 GB
VG UUID qCi2LR-HtF0-pfL1-Ffj8-PENl-6Rgx-nsIA11

--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/vg/myth
VG Name vg
LV UUID q3IKVg-19xc-Li1A-B6G3-L3LV-eUkJ-Qz6XmN
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status NOT available
LV Size 1.65 TB
Current LE 216168
Segments 3
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors 0

--- Physical volumes ---
PV Name /dev/sdc1
PV UUID 39Um1T-cvZr-6ewt-UQKK-XSCj-fvrh-lmT9r2
PV Status allocatable
Total PE / Free PE 59617 / 0

PV Name /dev/hda3
PV UUID JaTPJC-7Smg-aPvQ-QyyK-vbCu-DDA2-DyIWtF
PV Status allocatable
Total PE / Free PE 37318 / 0

PV Name /dev/sdb1
PV UUID JfL6fE-7hTx-0Rju-AYE2-eh0k-Ew5r-Ls00Og
PV Status allocatable
Total PE / Free PE 119233 / 0

PV Name unknown device
PV UUID kyZtSH-Ywbw-0fmZ-3vRD-2z3y-ZPuw-SaMsi6
PV Status allocatable
Total PE / Free PE 89425 / 89425

Author:  bigbro [ Sat Sep 20, 2008 6:45 pm ]
Post subject: 

Is it possible to recover remaining portions of a toasted LVM?

I was following the first scenario instructions posted by TJC here
http://knoppmyth.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.p ... ight=drive

Well anyway, when I told it to install all my paths said it was going to do this on /dev/sdc and it actually did it on /dev/sda

/dev/sda was the first drive in my lvm so now I have a nicely formatted Knoppmyth drive with R5.5 but it has toasted my LVM and most likely a large portion of my recordings. Here is what the vgdisplay gives me

[code] vgdisplay --partial --verbose
Partial mode. Incomplete volume groups will be activated read-only.
Finding all volume groups
Finding volume group "vg"
Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices
Couldn't find device with uuid 'lPR31U-RS1s-P0aa-vDNe-IKtb-By63-g2To7t'.
Couldn't find device with uuid 'lPR31U-RS1s-P0aa-vDNe-IKtb-By63-g2To7t'.
Couldn't find device with uuid 'lPR31U-RS1s-P0aa-vDNe-IKtb-By63-g2To7t'.
Couldn't find device with uuid 'lPR31U-RS1s-P0aa-vDNe-IKtb-By63-g2To7t'.
--- Volume group ---
VG Name vg
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 2
Metadata Sequence No 11
VG Access read
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 1
Open LV 0
Max PV 0
Cur PV 3
Act PV 3
VG Size 887.70 GB
PE Size 16.00 MB
Total PE 56813
Alloc PE / Size 56813 / 887.70 GB
Free PE / Size 0 / 0
VG UUID Ji8xge-AEhI-4Ktn-gp0Z-jK74-uK75-Effjp7

--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/vg/myth
VG Name vg
LV UUID D6zlBJ-WmdE-bmZr-ZDGr-1eqK-dxU1-BPyEBR
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status NOT available
LV Size 887.70 GB
Current LE 56813
Segments 3
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors 0

--- Physical volumes ---
PV Name unknown device
PV UUID lPR31U-RS1s-P0aa-vDNe-IKtb-By63-g2To7t
PV Status allocatable
Total PE / Free PE 19077 / 0

PV Name /dev/hda3
PV UUID cxA07Q-z4n3-4Pyv-LgWm-8865-51uO-CxCBJW
PV Status allocatable
Total PE / Free PE 18659 / 0

PV Name /dev/sdb1
PV UUID ZkELyu-akUj-3O2N-pPPN-6rmQ-dhlA-LywqRr
PV Status allocatable
Total PE / Free PE 19077 / 0

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