[BlueOnyx:12045] Re: Dracut can't mount LVM volumes

[Chuck Tetlow]

> Hi Chuck, 
> 
> > Thanks Gerald.  But its single drive.  In fact, its virtualized and 
> > pretending its on just one drive. 
> 
> Any backups available?

Hi Michael,

That's part of why I'm so anxious.  No backup for this server.  Still trying to figure out why the others have good backups and this server doesn't - but its informational only now.

> 
> > And when I try to mount manually (to fix LVM, or at least recover data) 
> > - the lvdisplay gives nothing at all.  I've seen what its supposed to 
> > report back, and its not giving that data.  So I can't get the logical 
> > volumes to mount manually either. 
> 
> What do "vgdisplay" "lvscan" report? 
> 
> -- 
> With best regards 
> 
> Michael Stauber

A number of the lvm commands give the one-line output "VolGroup00 is Exported", including the commands lvdisplay.  lvscan simply says its found VolGroup00.

The vgdisplay command results:

File descriptor 9 (/.console_lock) leaked on lvm invocation.  Partent PID885: 
  Volume group VolGroup00 is exported
  --- Volume group ---
  VG Name                         VolGroup00
  System ID
  Format                             lvm2
  Metadata Areas              1
  Metadata Sequence No  9
  VG Access                         read/write
  VG Status                         exported/resizable
  MAX LV                             0
  Cur LV                               5
  Open LV                            0
  Max PV                              0
  Cur PV                               1
  Act PV                               1
  VG Size                             127.00 GiB
  PE Size                              32.00 MiB
  Total PE                            4064
  Alloc PE / Size                  4064 / 127.00 GiB
  Free  PE / Size                 0 / 0
  VG UUID                            o3G31E-5kz6-p2UY-TEm2-mZiW-9uj6-qrI9NL

Thanks for the look Michael.  I'm already building a replacement server, but will have to use OLD backups for the sites.  So if we can get this one back up (even if just long enough to cmuExport) - it would be great.

Chuck
 
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