On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 09:25 +0100, William Murray wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 07:26 -0400, fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Another possibility might be to try converting your LVM2 volume group
> > to
> > LVM1 using vgconvert in FC5.
> >
> > Paul.
> >
> Paul, you are really helpful. But I got myself into more knots.
> vgconvert said:
> lv_number -19205086645 too large
> ...
> Use pvcreate and vgcfgrestore to repair from archived metadata
>
> But now vgdisplay, vgconvert, vgscan, pvscan all give 'segmentation
> fault' and the disk claims to be uninitialised for the graphical lvm
> client.
> Do you think there is a way to recover this?
> Sorry,
> Bill
I guess I was being stupid - I tried this with the filesystem mounted.
Anyway, the file-system is still mounted, and I think my best bet is
to save the bits I want (its interesting how despite a backup there are
still bits I want) and start over.
Cheers,
Bill
