Greetings all. I am hoping that you can, once again, help me out. Thanks for all previous assistance. :-)<br><br>This weekend, I added a new SATA drive to my Myth backend. It appeared to add into the volume group without any problem, though I did not get it to the point where the space was accessible. I planned to further research that problem; however, before I solved that one, I inadvertently created a new problem. The new drive was designated as /dev/sda.<br><br>I was suspicious about the new drive because it was clicking loudly, so I shut down cleanly and disconnected it. Yes, I then rebooted without the SATA drive connected thereby "breaking" my volume group. I did not know that when I re-connected and booted up again, the volume group would remain broken.<br><br>The system reports a missing physical volume of UUID ### and then reports an unknown physical volume with the same UUID. I have spent 5 hours trying to
recover this. It seems as though the tools / commands are there, but I don't know how to do it (or something else is wrong). I am hoping that someone can give me a suggestion on how to re-link the UUID for the SATA drive to the volume group. Thanks, in advance! Here are some details:<br><br>[root@mythserver ~]# pvdisplay<br> Couldn't find device with uuid 'fxlccO-4li0-nmyD-9avZ-Vc60-GGWX-jUhqOv'.<br> Couldn't find device with uuid 'fxlccO-4li0-nmyD-9avZ-Vc60-GGWX-jUhqOv'.<br> --- Physical volume ---<br> PV Name /dev/hda5<br> VG Name VolGroup00<br> PV Size 66.12 GB / not usable 0 <br>
Allocatable yes (but full)<br> PE Size (KByte) 4096<br> Total PE 16926<br> Free PE 0<br> Allocated PE 16926<br> PV UUID 317l2C-oay1-TWFG-5NTX-XJS3-vLal-Xh5bBL<br> <br> --- Physical volume ---<br> PV Name /dev/hdb<br> VG Name VolGroup00<br> PV Size 298.09 GB / not usable
0 <br> Allocatable yes (but full)<br> PE Size (KByte) 4096<br> Total PE 76311<br> Free PE 0<br> Allocated PE 76311<br> PV UUID nfLxS1-0u3t-5Zr9-57iu-1oZe-Bkkd-75SERQ<br> <br> --- Physical volume ---<br> PV Name unknown device<br> VG Name VolGroup00<br> PV
Size 232.88 GB / not usable 0 <br> Allocatable yes <br> PE Size (KByte) 4096<br> Total PE 59617<br> Free PE 225<br> Allocated PE 59392<br> PV UUID fxlccO-4li0-nmyD-9avZ-Vc60-GGWX-jUhqOv<br> <br>[root@mythserver ~]# vgdisplay<br> Couldn't find device with uuid 'fxlccO-4li0-nmyD-9avZ-Vc60-GGWX-jUhqOv'.<br> Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group VolGroup00.<br> Couldn't find device with uuid
'fxlccO-4li0-nmyD-9avZ-Vc60-GGWX-jUhqOv'.<br> Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group VolGroup00.<br> Couldn't find device with uuid 'fxlccO-4li0-nmyD-9avZ-Vc60-GGWX-jUhqOv'.<br> Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group VolGroup00.<br> Couldn't find device with uuid 'fxlccO-4li0-nmyD-9avZ-Vc60-GGWX-jUhqOv'.<br> Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group VolGroup00.<br> Volume group "VolGroup00" doesn't exist<br><br>[root@mythserver ~]# pvcreate -u fxlccO-4li0-nmyD-9avZ-Vc60-GGWX-jUhqOv /dev/sda<br> Device /dev/sda not found.<br><br>[root@mythserver ~]# vgcfgrestore -tnVolGroup00 /dev/VolGroup00<br> Test mode: Metadata will NOT be updated.<br> Couldn't find device with uuid 'fxlccO-4li0-nmyD-9avZ-Vc60-GGWX-jUhqOv'.<br> Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group VolGroup00.<br> Restore failed.<br><br><p> 
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