How do I recover a physical volume's metadata?
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Symptoms:
When an "incorrect metadata area header checksum" error message or an error message about not being able to find Physical Volumes with UUID is generated, it means that either the volume group descriptor area is corrupted or Logical Volume Manager (LVM) startup can not occur.
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