Re: disaster please help

From: Pugliese, Edward (EPugliese_at_NYBOT.COM)
Date: 06/22/05

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    Date:         Wed, 22 Jun 2005 08:29:59 -0400
    To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
    
    

    You only have to one importvg with one of the disks of the non-rootvg
    volume group. I believe it is the VGDA that contains the information
    about what LV's and PVID's belong to the volume group.

    I'm not sure what you could do about data on the other rootvg disk. If
    you try to importvg on that disk there would be conflicting LV names
    from you existing LV's. My understanding is that AIX will
    automatically rename those LV's. You then could manually chance
    /etc/filesystems to try and mount a filesystem with the renamed LV's.

    -----Original Message-----
    From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU] On Behalf Of
    Gerard M. MAMOU
    Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 1:59 AM
    To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
    Subject: Re: disaster please help

    Hello
    thank you for your answer.
    question continued:
    if these old disks previously known as
    hdisk2 and hdisk3
    are also know (because I have also two disks for my new rootvg) should I
    type importvg -y uservg -P hdisk2 importvg -y uservg -P hdisk3
    meaning:
    should the vg_name uservg of these commands be the SAME as the old
    configuration how the new system knows that there is two disks in the
    uservg if I type only one time importvg -y uservg -P hdisk2

    will the system know about the LV in these two disks? how?
    Thank you
    Gerard Mamou
    .

     On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 01:46:06PM -0700, Patrick B. O'Brien wrote:
    > Get the pvid's of these hdisks;
    > lspv.
    >
    > Now do the following;
    > importvg -y vg_name -P pvid
    >
    >
    >
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU] On Behalf
    > Of Gerard M. MAMOU
    > Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 1:26 PM
    > To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
    > Subject: disaster please help
    >
    > Hello
    > I have a rs6000 43p with rootvg(hdisk0 and hdisk1) and uservg(hdisk2
    > and hdisk3)
    >
    > The root vg hdisk0 does not boot.
    >
    > I tried to reinstall a mksysb on a new disk.
    > It worked fine.
    >
    > How do I get back my datas of hdisk2 and hdisk3 I did not backup them,

    > I did not exportvg them.
    >
    > What can I do with the hdisk1? Could I get the datas on it?
    >
    > Could I use linux with jfs support to mount the hdisk2 and hdisk3?
    How?
    > Please help
    > Gerard Mamou

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