On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 18:09 +0100, Vic wrote: > > Is there a way I can make sure that they LVs are found and made active at > > boot time so they can be mounted? > > They usually will be. On RH-type systems, this is done by the init script > in your initrd - I've no idea about other flavours, but I suspect it will > be similar. > > The only real difficulty I've had here is if you have multiple VGs; the > init script mentions the main VG by name, so additional ones aren't made > active there, and nor is the main one if you change its name. I usually > hand-modify the initrd to cope with this - but that's not a maintainable > situation. zcat and cpio are your friends :-)
I'm running Debian Lenny. As far as I can tell, all the init scripts are in place, and I only have 1 volume group. On boot I get the following (relevant) messages: Setting the system clock. scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ST310003 33AS PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 1953525168 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/931 GiB) sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through sda:Cleaning up ifupdown.... Loading kernel modules...done. Setting up LVM Volume Groups device-mapper: ioctl: 4.15.0-ioctl (2009-04-01) initialised: dm-de...@redhat.com sda1 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... . Checking file systems...fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) done. Setting kernel variables (/etc/sysctl.conf)...done. Mounting local filesystems...mount: special device /dev/vg0/home does not exist failed. Am I correct in my interpretation of the above that /dev/sda1 isn't being found until after the Volume groups are set up, and therefore the PVs cant be activated? If so, is there any "messing" I can do to make it work? Cheers Mark -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
