Root Logical volume spanned across two physical volumes and the corresponding VG is in partial mode
Issue
- Root Logical volume spanned across two physical volumes and the corresponding VG is in partial mode
$ cat df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/systemvg-LogVol00 20408956 8566724 10798904 45% /
LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Meta% Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert LV Tags Devices
LogVol00 systemvg -wi-ao--p- 19.90g /dev/sda2(102400)
LogVol00 systemvg -wi-ao--p- 19.90g unknown device(0)
LogVol01 systemvg -wi-ao---- 899.00g /dev/sda2(0)
LogVol01 systemvg -wi-ao---- 899.00g /dev/sdb1(0)
LogVol02 systemvg -wi-ao---- 20.00g /dev/sda2(105602)
LogVol02 systemvg -wi-ao---- 20.00g /dev/sdc(0)
LogVol03 systemvg -wi-ao---- 2.51g /dev/sda2(104960)
VG Attr Ext #PV #LV #SN VSize VFree VG UUID VProfile #VMda VMdaFree VMdaSize #VMdaUse VG Tags
systemvg wz-pn- 4.00m 4 4 0 944.49g 3.08g 5bduDB-3Bel-HlRl-RGya-pnKV-rm4K-f2O4Id 3 506.50k 1020.00k 3
VG systemvg has 4 PVs and root logical volume LogVol00 has two underlying PVs viz; /dev/sda2 and a device shown as unknown device. Unknown device is seen to be /dev/sdd2 which is present in the system however not in the VG due to its corrupt VG metadata.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- LVM
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