[TriLUG] Help with a "broken" LVM drive

[Brian McCullough via TriLUG]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 03:56:58PM -0400, David Both wrote:
> You may not have a PV if the storage device was partitioned. Have you run
> vgs, pvs, and lvs, which all search for LVM entities? There is also
> pvdisplay, lvdisplay and vgdisplay, as well as pvscan, vgscan, and lvscan.
> Also, vgmknodes can create new device nodes for all existing volume groups.

Thank you, David.

No, I never use raw devices for LVM PVs, I always partition the drives.

Unfortunately, without the PV "stamp" on the partion, none of the tools
work.



> Good luck.


Thank you.



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