-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Brian J. Murrell wrote: > Hey folks (and Guillaume), > > I was looking at guessmounts in the rescue system and noticed a possible > enhancement: LVM support. >
I actually mentioned this in another thread, we bumped into this 2 days ago ... > I build my machines with root (as well as everything else but /boot) on > LVM. We had /root also not on LVM, so we could mount / , but /usr wasn't available (on lvm). > It would be nice if guessmounts could figure this out. Ideally, it > could look at the "type" of the partitions on the disk(s) and set up LVM > if it finds an LVM "typed" partition. But even if guessmounts just "fell > back" to trying to use LVM if it fails to find a root partition without > LVM would suffice. > Since DrakX finds LVM ok in upgrades, I think the support just needs to be added to the rescue image. > When I boot an LVM based system with the rescue, I can run the following > at the command prompt to get my LVM root (and other filesystems) mounted, > so it should not be too difficult to put this into guessmounts: > > # modprobe lvm-mod > # mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom > # /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/vgscan > # /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/vgchange -a y Ahhh, that's where vgscan is! Maybe we could have /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/ in the path in rescue? I was lucky we had / not lvm, otherwise I wouldn't have found a vgscan (it wasn't in the rescue image). > # mount /dev/rootvol/root /mnt/disk > # mount /dev/rootvol/usr /mnt/disk/usr > ... > > Thots? LVM support in rescue would be cool .... Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+3fywrJK6UGDSBKcRAs9+AKDA+ctPockPCisxzZVrdTzEljCRkgCeO0Ww U6FiQBdhgGL2eUuJrB8yXnQ= =FFIU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ****************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. ******************************************************************
