Re: disaster please help

From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green_at_EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: 06/23/05

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    Date:         Thu, 23 Jun 2005 11:49:39 +0200
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

    > From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU] On
    > Behalf Of Gerard M. MAMOU
    > Sent: 23 June 2005 07:44
    > To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
    > Subject: Re: disaster please help
    >
    >
    > Hello
    > question:
    > how do you force the vary on ?

    Please refer to the man page for the varyonvg command.
     
    > question2:
    > I understand that the name of the uservg imported should not
    > be rootvg.

    That's not what I meant...

    > For myself it is uservg.
    > My old config:
    > rootvg:
    > hdisk0
    > hdisk1
    > uservg:
    > hdisk2
    > hdisk3
    >
    > My after crash config:
    > rootvg:
    > new disk of 18.2Go hdisk0
    > uservg:
    > not tested yet, I am afraid.
    > but probably
    > hdisk1
    > hdisk2
    > because the old hdisk1 is unpluged.
    >
    > do you mean that I should do
    > importvg -y uservg hdisk1

    Yes; assuming that hdisk1 is one of the disks that makes up uservg.

    If you're unsure, you can always do the importvg, then take a look at the
    contents and if it's not what you're expecting do an exportvg and try again
    with a different disk.

    It's quite valuable to save information on your VG configuration regularly,
    for just this sort of occurance.

    My reference to "don't call it rootvg", was assuming you still had access to
    the original hdisk1, which was part of the old rootvg, and wanted to access
    some data on there. Perhaps I misunderstood what you wanted to do.

    I would recommend that you download copies of the IBM Redbook "LVM A to Z",
    (two volumes). There's quite a lot of useful stuff in them. URL is in my
    sig. 

    -- 
Simon Green							
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