LVM

[Matt Graham]

After a long battle with technology, Shawn Badger wrote:
> Speaking of LVM stuff. Is there a good way to do a vgimport on a PV that
> wasn't exported before the machine died?

Not vgimport specifically, but the VG metadata *should* have been backed up 
the last time you made a change to the VG in /etc/lvm/backup/ .  It looks 
like you can restore that with vgcfgrestore according to the man pages.  If 
that dir is no longer available or the file containing the metadata has been 
zorched, I don't know for sure what you'd do.

> I have personally been shying away form using [LVM] on non-raided systems
> because of past issues I have had with disk that have [PVs] on them from 
> dead machines. 

This is why you do regular backups of the important junk.  If a system is 
using LVM, /etc/lvm/ is in the "important junk" category.

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