Thanks Herta. I'll try this today.

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Herta Van den Eynde <
herta.vandeneynde@(protected):

> On 08/04/2008, Ezra Taylor <ezra.taylor@(protected):
> >
> > Hello all:
> >          I just inherited a box that's running LVM2. This box has
> > two
> > volume groups with the same name but they both have different UUID
> > numbers.
> > Is it a problem to have a box like this? If so, how can I recover?
> The
> > output of displayvg and pvscan is below.
> >
> >
> >  sudo /usr/sbin/vgdisplay
> >  --- Volume group ---
> >  VG Name          SysVG
> >  System ID
> >  Format           lvm2
> >  Metadata Areas     1
> >  Metadata Sequence No 8
> >  VG Access         read/write
> >  VG Status         resizable
> >  MAX LV           0
> >  Cur LV           7
> >  Open LV          7
> >  Max PV           0
> >  Cur PV           1
> >  Act PV           1
> >  VG Size          273.38 GB
> >  PE Size          32.00 MB
> >  Total PE         8748
> >  Alloc PE / Size     2112 / 66.00 GB
> >  Free PE / Size     6636 / 207.38 GB
> >  VG UUID          rS82Le-cEA5-MDxm-7zza-x0ve-gxYp-txZQT0
> >
> >  --- Volume group ---
> >  VG Name          SysVG
> >  System ID
> >  Format           lvm2
> >  Metadata Areas     1
> >  Metadata Sequence No 8
> >  VG Access         read/write
> >  VG Status         resizable
> >  MAX LV           0
> >  Cur LV           7
> >  Open LV          7
> >  Max PV           0
> >  Cur PV           1
> >  Act PV           1
> >  VG Size          67.94 GB
> >  PE Size          32.00 MB
> >  Total PE         2174
> >  Alloc PE / Size     2112 / 66.00 GB
> >  Free PE / Size     62 / 1.94 GB
> >  VG UUID          haTLf2-kby5-fPxh-pVGx-7lD5-ZYpa-nI6EvK
> >
> >
> >
> >  sudo /usr/sbin/pvscan
> >  PV /dev/cciss/c0d1p1  VG SysVG  lvm2 [273.38 GB / 207.38 GB free]
> >  PV /dev/cciss/c0d0p2  VG SysVG  lvm2 [67.94 GB / 1.94 GB free]
> >  Total: 2 [341.31 GB] / in use: 2 [341.31 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0  ]
> >
> >
> > --
> > Ezra Taylor
> >
>
> I suppose that this could be caused when exporting/importing volume groups
> from another system.
> You could try to rename one of the volume groups using vgsplit. It has a
> -t
> option to test first, so you should be save. Something like this should
> do
> the trick:
>
>  # vgsplit -A y -t SysVG MyVG /dev/cciss/c0d0p2
>
> If this looks OK, repeat without the "-t" option.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Herta
>
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