After overwriting the PV metadata with GPT partition table, LVM commands fail to recognise the PV. How to recover the data on this PV.
Issue
- After overwriting the PV metadata with GPT partition table, LVM commands fail to recognise the PV. How to recover the data on this PV. only one PV was in the VG and also there was only one LV on it.
- After writing the GPT table, we were getting
$ cat sos_commands/filesys/fdisk_-l_.dev.sdc
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdc'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
Disk /dev/sdc: 644.2 GB, 644245094400 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 78325 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 78326 629145599+ ee EFI GPT
The sdc device was mpath0 in the system.
mpath0 (1HITACHI_123104820198)
[size=600 GB][features="0"][hwhandler="0"]
\_ round-robin 0 [prio=1][active]
\_ 1:0:0:1 sdc 8:32 [active][ready]
\_ round-robin 0 [enabled]
\_ 2:0:0:1 sdd 8:48 [active][ready]
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- LVM2 - Logical Volume Manager
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