[CentOS] recover lvm from pv

Fri Mar 8 14:21:59 UTC 2013
Harold Pritchett <harold at uga.edu>

On 3/8/2013 8:57 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> On 03/08/2013 08:07 AM, SilverTip257 wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Harold Pritchett <harold at uga.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> On 3/7/2013 10:10 PM, Stephen Harris wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 09:54:59PM -0500, Harold Pritchett wrote:
>>>>> What other information do I need which may be available?
>>>> What does 'vgscan' say?  'vgchange -a y' ?
>>>>
>>> [root at mickey www]# vgscan
>>>      Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
>>>      Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2
>>>
>> Do both Volume Groups on those two sets of disks have the same name?
>>    VolGroup00
> This is all to common an issue.  I make a point that all LVMs are
> uniquely named.
>
Actually, no.  The VolGroup00 name is associated with the running system.  It's the default name when you install CentOS with the default option.  The vol group on the other disks 
is "vg0" and is the name I used when I created the system several years ago.

Harold