[wplug] Take me to hardware school

[Brandon Poyner]

On 1/15/07, G.Pitman <gpitman at gmail.com> wrote:
> I really appreciate your help. I used the following commands to restore the logical volume and besides the terrifying little error on vgexport, everything worked fine.
>
>
> [root at storm root]# vgexport foo_data
> vgexport -- ERROR "lvm_tab_vg_remove(): VG doesn't exist" removing  volume group "foo_data" from "/etc/lvmtab"
> vgexport -- volume group "foo_data" NOT sucessfully exported
>
> [root at storm root]# vgimport foo_data /dev/sd[cejk]
> vgimport -- doing automatic backup of volume group "foo_data"
> vgimport -- volume group "foo_data" successfully imported and activated

Glad to hear it worked out.  I wasn't aware that RHEL3 uses LVM1 as
indicated by the /etc/lvmtab.  RHEL4 uses LVM2 and has an /etc/lvm
directory.  Still, you'd end up doing the same thing to fix the
problem with the volume group in this case.

-- 
Brandon