Mrugesh Karnik wrote:

> Kiawud wrote:
>
>> On 4/16/05, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello folks,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to install Gentoo with LVM2. I had to stop the installation
>>> at one point and reboot the pc. Later, I booted with LiveCD again and
>>> now I'm wondering how I am to get my volumes back...
>>>
>>> I did the following (I definitely think that I'm doing something wrong
>>> here! I admit that I don't have enough knowledge about lvm yet and that
>>> I haven't read the complete LVM HOWTO yet.)
>>>
>>> modprobe dm_mod
>>> pvscan <<< Found the volume vg
>>> pvchange -a y <<< Successfully enabled vg
>>> lvscan <<< It found all the volumes, ie, usr, home, opt, var and tmp
>>> lvchange - a y <<< I enabled all the volumes properly.
>>>
>>> Now, when I do lvscan again, it tells me that all the volumes are
>>> ACTIVE
>>> and shows the path as /dev/vg/* and shows them as "inherit".
>>>
>>> After all that, there is no /dev/vg
>>>
>>> Help?
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>> Yours Faithfully,
>>> Mrugesh Karnik
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>>>
>>>
>>
>> No problem ... I just did the same thing (installed 2005.0 w/ lvm2)
>> ... Here's how I got it to work:
>>
>> 1) vgchange -a n  (deactive all the volumes)
>> 2) vgexport -a vg  (export all the volumes)
>> 3) vgimport -a vg  (import all the volumes into the existing system)
>> 4) vgchange -a y   (reactive all the volumes)
>>
>> This should do it for you...
>>
>> -Hani
>>
> Ah!
>
> Somehow I forgot to see --help on the export command... hehehe. I'll
> give it a try. Thank  you. :)
>
> Regards,
> Mrugesh Karnik

Hi,
A week ago also tried to install using LVM2, but couldn't resolve a Bug
(lvm2 linked to libgmp), see gentoo-lvm2-docs, so went for a normal install.
Made the devices with 'vgmknodes' command, then they exist in /dev/vg/...
HTH
Rumen
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