The tool fsck.gfs2 was run against the wrong device and destroyed the LVM metadata.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • fsck.gfs2 was run against the LVM physical volume instead of against the logical volume, and this destroyed the LVM metadata.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (with the Resilient Storage Add-on)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (with the Resilient Storage Add-on)
  • A Global Filesystem 2 (gfs2) filesystem

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