On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 03:03 -0500, ron wrote: > Rick, > > Thank you so much for your help. I tried your suggestion and still got > the same error message. I decided to use the swap space on the other > drive for now. I learned a lot about drive partitioning and logical > volumes from this. > > [root@coresix archive]# /usr/sbin/pvcreate --uuid > "ZLNZwN-beD3-SPWN-gm9f-t2hA-K8op-q1qs0K" --restorefile > /etc/lvm/archive/sys_vg_00002.vg /dev/sdb2 > File descriptor 11 left open > File descriptor 12 left open > File descriptor 13 left open > Incorrect metadata area header checksum > /etc/lvm/archive/sys_vg_00002.vg: stat failed: No such file or directory > Couldn't read volume group metadata. > Unable to read volume group from /etc/lvm/archive/sys_vg_00002.vg Uh, that filename used in the pvreate should be the same as the one you got the PV data and such from, not the same name as I used in my example. On a standard LVM install, it'd be /etc/lvm/archive/VolGroup00_XXXXX.vg > > -ron- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - To err is human, to moo bovine. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
