Re: copying lvm with the same name

2009-03-17 Thread Aldo Foot
e I'm not terribly anxious to just start playing around with > the lvm configuration without knowing what I'm doing. > > Here are my findings so far: > > [r...@mutt ~]# pvscan >  PV /dev/sdb2   VG VolGroup00   lvm2 [279.25 GB / 32.00 MB free] >  PV /dev/sda2   VG VolGrou

Re: copying lvm with the same name

2009-03-17 Thread Kevin Kofler
Craig White wrote: > I wouldn't mess with pv commands at all but rather simply create a mount > point and mount the drives. You probably need to figure out what > partitions are in the two LV Groups and I think you should be able to do > that with the command 'blkid' Doesn't he have to rename the

Re: copying lvm with the same name

2009-03-16 Thread Craig White
e I'm not terribly anxious to just start playing around with > the lvm configuration without knowing what I'm doing. > > Here are my findings so far: > > [r...@mutt ~]# pvscan > PV /dev/sdb2 VG VolGroup00 lvm2 [279.25 GB / 32.00 MB free] > PV /dev/sda2 V

copying lvm with the same name

2009-03-16 Thread Frank Cox
volumes and some of what I've found is self-contradictory, incomplete and stuff that I just don't really understand (yet.) And, as you can imagine, since this is my main desktop machine I'm not terribly anxious to just start playing around with the lvm configuration without knowing

USB or LVM problems in kernel-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686?

2009-03-11 Thread Eric Brunson
After upgrading my kernel I got read errors on my external USB disk when doing a pvscan and LVM wouldn't recognize it as a valid volume. My internal LVM PV worked fine. Booting back into kernel-2.6.27.15-170.2.24.fc10.i686 made it work again. Has anyone else seen problems with USB st

Re: How to add drive lvm -

2009-02-21 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 18:51 -0500, Chris Tyler wrote: > > # lvextend VolGroup00 /dev/xxx Whoops, I should obviously have written vgextend. -Chris -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedorapro

Re: How to add drive lvm -

2009-02-21 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 23:30 +, iarly selbir wrote: > - create a lvm partition with fdisk > fdisk /dev/xxx > n ( new partition ) > p ( type primary ) > 1 ( first partition ) > t ( select partition type ) > 8e ( lvm ) > > - create physical volume > # pvcreate /de

Re: How to add drive lvm -

2009-02-21 Thread iarly selbir
- create a lvm partition with fdisk fdisk /dev/xxx n ( new partition ) p ( type primary ) 1 ( first partition ) t ( select partition type ) 8e ( lvm ) - create physical volume # pvcreate /dev/xxx1 - create volume group # vgcreate name_vg /dev/xxx1 - create logical volume # lvcreate -L SIZE

How to add drive lvm -

2009-02-21 Thread Bob Goodwin
In an F-10 computer I have a second drive that I would like to designate lvm VolGroup01 but have not had much success at finding how to proceed. Need some guidance ... How to do it, where to look? Thanks. Bob -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https

Re: Please help! Lost my LVM VG...

2009-02-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 23:56 +0300, Andrew Junev wrote: > P.S. What does the 'OP' mean? Something like 'Original Poster'? :) Yes, it's accepted usage. Not that common but not extremely rare either. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mai

Re: Please help! Lost my LVM VG...

2009-02-12 Thread Andrew Junev
Thursday, February 12, 2009, 11:29:07 PM, you wrote: > In any case, it would be interesting to have the OP reboot, and see > if the VG is active on reboot. I did. I even powered the system down. It starts now without that problem and everything gets mounted automatically during boot. So the probl

Re: Please help! Lost my LVM VG...

2009-02-12 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Strange - /var/lock/lvm is empty, and its date does not correspond It's always empty unless an LVM tool is running (or you've disabled locking or are using some non-local locking mode for all your VGs). Try running e.g. vgchange in a debugger. Set a bre

Re: Please help! Lost my LVM VG...

2009-02-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
gt;>> If I understand the VG commands correctly, you just did. >>> I think the OP wants his VG to activate without the need for him >>> to give the root password at each boot and mess around running >>> commands by hand :) >>> >>> Bryn. >>&

Re: Please help! Lost my LVM VG...

2009-02-12 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
the root password at each boot and mess around running commands by hand :) Bryn. I thought that running "vgchange -ay VolTerabytes00" would have modified /etc/lvm/cache/.cache so that the VG would stay active. (I The cache is revalidated each time the tools run. If VGs are only being

Re: Please help! Lost my LVM VG...

2009-02-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
vate without the need for him to > give the root password at each boot and mess around running commands > by hand :) > > Bryn. > I thought that running "vgchange -ay VolTerabytes00" would have modified /etc/lvm/cache/.cache so that the VG would stay active. (I think I have

Re: Please help! Lost my LVM VG...

2009-02-12 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Andrew Junev wrote: /var/log/messages doesn't contain any information about that problem. The error happened too early during boot - so that the data didn't get into the log files (disks were mounted in read-only mode). You can work around this by commenting out the file systems on the problem

Re: Please help! Lost my LVM VG...

2009-02-12 Thread Andrew Junev
Hello Bryn, > You need to understand why it wasn't being activated automatically. > Boot logs (dmesg and/or /var/log/messages) would help here. Normally, > devices are scanned for LVM metadata when rc.sysinit runs. > There were some bugs in older releases (f8 is no longer >

Re: Please help! Lost my LVM VG...

2009-02-12 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Andrew Junev wrote: Thursday, February 12, 2009, 9:42:38 PM, you wrote: Running the command: vgchange -ay VolTerabytes00 Should activate the VG, assuming that all PVs are present (and any needed modules have been loaded). I tried running lvm and it says "Lo

Re: Please help! Lost my LVM VG...

2009-02-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
since the vgchange -ay worked after the system had > booted but there's not really enough information to say for sure. > > Try adding a "sleep 5" or "udevsettle --timeout=30" command to > rc.sysinit above each of the LVM activation commands. I don't use

Re: Please help! Lost my LVM VG...

2009-02-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Andrew Junev wrote: > Thursday, February 12, 2009, 9:42:38 PM, you wrote: > > >> Running the command: > >> vgchange -ay VolTerabytes00 > >> Should activate the VG, assuming that all PVs are present (and any >> needed modules have been loaded). > &g

Re: Please help! Lost my LVM VG...

2009-02-12 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Andrew Junev wrote: Thursday, February 12, 2009, 9:42:38 PM, you wrote: Running the command: vgchange -ay VolTerabytes00 Should activate the VG, assuming that all PVs are present (and any needed modules have been loaded). I tried running lvm and it says "Locking type 1 initialis

Re: Please help! Lost my LVM VG...

2009-02-12 Thread Andrew Junev
Thursday, February 12, 2009, 9:42:38 PM, you wrote: > Running the command: > vgchange -ay VolTerabytes00 > Should activate the VG, assuming that all PVs are present (and any > needed modules have been loaded). >> I tried running lvm and it says "Locking type 1 initi

Re: Please help! Lost my LVM VG...

2009-02-12 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
: vgchange -ay VolTerabytes00 Should activate the VG, assuming that all PVs are present (and any needed modules have been loaded). I tried running lvm and it says "Locking type 1 initialisation failed" no matter what command I enter... Check that the file system providing /var has been

Please help! Lost my LVM VG...

2009-02-12 Thread Andrew Junev
I'm prompted to enter a root password to get to system maintenance, or Ctrl+D to continue. In the system maintenance I can see there's /dev/VolGroup00 but there's no /dev/VolTerabytes00, so my newly-created VG seem to be missing! I tried running lvm and it says "Locking type 1

Re: Will btfrs file system obsolete LVM?

2009-01-24 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Leslie Satenstein wrote: My question is in the subject line. Btrfs will take more time to mature (maybe a couple more releases atleast) but essentially, yes. Btrfs features are listed in http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page Rahul -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redha

Will btfrs file system obsolete LVM?

2009-01-23 Thread Leslie Satenstein
My question is in the subject line. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: Unable to boot with LVM mount on USB drive (Fedora 10)

2008-12-11 Thread Bruce Thompson
On Dec 11, 2008, at 6:35 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: Bruce Thompson wrote: Just got home to try it out, that did the trick nicely. BTW for those that may have influence, would it be unreasonable to expect the default initrd to include usb-storage? The current approach is to build initramfs i

Re: Unable to boot with LVM mount on USB drive (Fedora 10)

2008-12-11 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Bruce Thompson wrote: Just got home to try it out, that did the trick nicely. BTW for those that may have influence, would it be unreasonable to expect the default initrd to include usb-storage? The current approach is to build initramfs images that are tailored to a specific system - only t

Re: Unable to boot with LVM mount on USB drive (Fedora 10)

2008-12-11 Thread Bruce Thompson
On Dec 11, 2008, at 7:32 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Bruce Thompson wrote: Hi all, I haven't seen this reported anywhere else and it's kind of driving me nuts. I've got an LVM volume group that extends across two internal drives and one external USB drive. Prior to

Re: Unable to boot with LVM mount on USB drive (Fedora 10)

2008-12-10 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Bruce Thompson wrote: > Hi all, > > I haven't seen this reported anywhere else and it's kind of driving me > nuts. > > I've got an LVM volume group that extends across two internal drives and > one external USB drive. Prior to Fedora 10, the volume group in

Unable to boot with LVM mount on USB drive (Fedora 10)

2008-12-10 Thread Bruce Thompson
Hi all, I haven't seen this reported anywhere else and it's kind of driving me nuts. I've got an LVM volume group that extends across two internal drives and one external USB drive. Prior to Fedora 10, the volume group initializes fine during boot and the filesystems liste

Re: F10 install - custom partitioning - no LVM logical volumes

2008-12-03 Thread Frode Petersen
Frode Petersen: I can't find a way to create new LV's on an existing PV. (Back from the install session) I accidentally figured this out. You have to select one of the listed logical volumes and choose 'edit', then in the next dialog you can select a logical volume and choose edit to actual

F10 install - custom partitioning - no LVM logical volumes

2008-12-03 Thread Frode Petersen
Hi. I'm installing F10 (fresh) from the DVD. I have a tri-boot setup with Win+CentOS+F10. The CentOS and Fedora installs will share some physical LVM volumes, having some logical volumes in common and others for them selves. When setting up the partitioning of the disks in Anaconda (c

Re: LVM and bad disk...

2008-11-26 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 07:41:24AM -0500, John Burton wrote: > I've never used LVM under Fedora. I did use something similar under AIX > probably 10-15 years ago. I've been using linux for since slackware (on > floppies) and kernel version 0.99.4, but I've always used

LVM and bad disk...

2008-11-26 Thread John Burton
All, I've never used LVM under Fedora. I did use something similar under AIX probably 10-15 years ago. I've been using linux for since slackware (on floppies) and kernel version 0.99.4, but I've always used the old standard of partitioning hard drives and creating files

Re: how to mount an lvm (thumb) drive?

2008-11-25 Thread Dave Burns
B drive and your system have VolGroup00 as > the volume group name, which is causing confusion. Guessing that's the problem, or that they have the same name? They do have the same name, lvm lvs LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% Convert LogVol00 VolGroup00

Re: how to mount an lvm (thumb) drive?

2008-11-25 Thread Tim
els for non-LVM partitions, etc) to provide unique identifiers, where they're (currently) given generic non-unique ones. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.5-41.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. --

Re: how to mount an lvm (thumb) drive?

2008-11-25 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 15:27 -1000, Dave Burns wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Dario Nievas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > could you please provide the output of: > > "pvscan" > > "lvscan" > > "vgscan" > > > &g

Re: how to mount an lvm (thumb) drive?

2008-11-25 Thread Dave Burns
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Chris Tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 14:30 -1000, Dave Burns wrote: >> I have a thumb drive with fedora installed on it. When I plug in the >> drive, /boot mounts automatically. fdisk -l shows the root partition &

Re: how to mount an lvm (thumb) drive?

2008-11-25 Thread Dave Burns
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Dario Nievas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > could you please provide the output of: > "pvscan" > "lvscan" > "vgscan" > lvm pvscan;lvm lvscan;lvm vgscan PV /dev/sdc2 VG VolGroup00 lvm2 [7.28 GB / 32.00 MB fre

Re: how to mount an lvm (thumb) drive?

2008-11-25 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 14:30 -1000, Dave Burns wrote: > I have a thumb drive with fedora installed on it. When I plug in the > drive, /boot mounts automatically. fdisk -l shows the root partition > device is LVM. I would like to mount / by hand at another mount point, > but I can'

Re: how to mount an lvm (thumb) drive?

2008-11-25 Thread Dario Nievas
gt; I have a thumb drive with fedora installed on it. When I plug in the > drive, /boot mounts automatically. fdisk -l shows the root partition > device is LVM. I would like to mount / by hand at another mount point, > but I can't figure out what parameter to give to -t. man moun

how to mount an lvm (thumb) drive?

2008-11-25 Thread Dave Burns
I have a thumb drive with fedora installed on it. When I plug in the drive, /boot mounts automatically. fdisk -l shows the root partition device is LVM. I would like to mount / by hand at another mount point, but I can't figure out what parameter to give to -t. man mount no help. man lvm do

Re: lvm

2008-11-25 Thread Patrick Dupre
miss ? Regards. You probably need to rebuild the initrd for your kernel to know about the new logical volume name(s). Now, I am not that sure because I did read that it is necessary to rebuild the initrd if the root is on a lvm which is not my case

Re: lvm

2008-11-25 Thread Bill Crawford
On Monday 24 November 2008 00:34:25 Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > I duplicate an hard drive to another one with logical partition. > I kept the / on a standard partition, put the /usr on /dev/VG1/usr, etc... > When I mount the logical partitions I do experience any problem but when > I boot th

Re: lvm

2008-11-25 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Timothy Murphy wrote: Patrick Dupre wrote: fsck complains The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you mig

Re: lvm

2008-11-25 Thread Timothy Murphy
Patrick Dupre wrote: > fsck complains > The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 > filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 > filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock > is corrupt, and you might try running

Re: lvm

2008-11-25 Thread Patrick Dupre
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Bill Crawford wrote: On Monday 24 November 2008 00:34:25 Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, I duplicate an hard drive to another one with logical partition. I kept the / on a standard partition, put the /usr on /dev/VG1/usr, etc... When I mount the logical partitions I do experi

Re: lvm

2008-11-24 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, I can add that when it scratches, I get the following information: Setting hostname: OK locking type 1 initialisation failed fsck.ext No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/mapper/VG1-usr then / is only mount in read only. What is wrong ? -- ---

Re: lvm

2008-11-24 Thread Patrick Dupre
/floppy msdos,auto noauto,user,umask=0 0 0 I did try /dev/VG1 and /dev/mapper with the same result. I looks like that the logical partitions are not recognize by fsck, but it works fine when I do the same from a properly boot disk. fsck works find with LVM. I suspect that you may may have

Re: LVM extend how (vmware)

2008-11-24 Thread roland
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:13:57 +0100, Chris Tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 15:04 +0100, roland wrote: Hello, I used vmware-vdiskmanager to extend a virtual client This virtual client runs fedora and has a LVM. fdisk /dev/sda results in /dev/sda1 (id 83) /dev/sda2

Re: LVM extend how (vmware)

2008-11-24 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
basic tasks like this (it's not been updated in a couple of years, but is still correct for simple things like expanding VGs/LVs): http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ Regards, Bryn. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinf

Re: LVM extend how (vmware)

2008-11-24 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 15:04 +0100, roland wrote: > Hello, > > I used vmware-vdiskmanager to extend a virtual client > This virtual client runs fedora and has a LVM. > > fdisk /dev/sda > results in > /dev/sda1 (id 83) /dev/sda2 (id=8e) /dev/sda3 > > How can I con

LVM extend how (vmware)

2008-11-24 Thread roland
Hello, I used vmware-vdiskmanager to extend a virtual client This virtual client runs fedora and has a LVM. fdisk /dev/sda results in /dev/sda1 (id 83) /dev/sda2 (id=8e) /dev/sda3 How can I connect sda3 to VolGroup00 I read all kind of entrees on google, but they are all complicated. I have

Re: lvm

2008-11-23 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
e that the logical partitions are not recognize by fsck, but it > works fine when I do the same from a properly boot disk. > fsck works find with LVM. I suspect that you may may have the wrong LV and/or VG name. You may want to run lvscan to display the names. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the

lvm

2008-11-23 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, I duplicate an hard drive to another one with logical partition. I kept the / on a standard partition, put the /usr on /dev/VG1/usr, etc... When I mount the logical partitions I do experience any problem but when I boot the machine on the logical partition I get an error from the /etc/fst

Re: resize LVM partition

2008-10-27 Thread Peter Larsen
ndows , now i have free space on > >> disk > >> > >> There is > >> > >> sda1 - now free space > >> sda2 - /boot > >> sda3 - LVM > >> > >> Now i want to resize sda3 to take free space over sda1. Is this > >> possib

Re: resize LVM partition

2008-10-26 Thread Aldo Foot
t; >> sda1 - now free space >> sda2 - /boot >> sda3 - LVM >> >> Now i want to resize sda3 to take free space over sda1. Is this >> possible? as there is sda2 in way before ... >> Is the best solution to just create sda1 with LVM and then resize my >>

Re: resize LVM partition

2008-10-26 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 20:37 +0200, David Hláčik wrote: > Hello guys, > > i have removed sda1 partition with Windows , now i have free space on > disk > > There is > > sda1 - now free space > sda2 - /boot > sda3 - LVM > > Now i want to resize sda3 t

Re: resize LVM partition

2008-10-25 Thread Remi Collet
David Hláčik a écrit : > Hello guys, > > i have removed sda1 partition with Windows , now i have free space on disk > > There is > > sda1 - now free space > sda2 - /boot > sda3 - LVM > > Now i want to resize sda3 to take free space over sda1. Is this > poss

resize LVM partition

2008-10-25 Thread David Hláčik
Hello guys, i have removed sda1 partition with Windows , now i have free space on disk There is sda1 - now free space sda2 - /boot sda3 - LVM Now i want to resize sda3 to take free space over sda1. Is this possible? as there is sda2 in way before ... Is the best solution to just create sda1

Re: LVM resize sanity check

2008-10-23 Thread Gilboa Davara
nd -L+6G /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol03 > # resize2fs /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol03 > # mount /tmp > > Does that ring any alarm bells? One huge alarm bell. When you are manually resizing an ext3/LVM combo you risk over reducing the LVM compared to the ext3 FS due to math/1000vs1024 conversion erro

Re: LVM resize sanity check

2008-10-22 Thread brian
Robert Locke wrote: Unmounting should only be necessary when "shrinking" a filesystem. I thought you were growing /tmp But, now that you mention it, I didn't notice that you were unmounting and fscking /var before lvextend and resize2fs. Generally growing should work with just lvextend an

Re: LVM resize sanity check

2008-10-22 Thread Robert Locke
On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 14:48 -0400, brian wrote: > brian wrote: > > Robert Locke wrote: > >> > >> As an alternative, that might be easier, why not install > >> "system-config-lvm"? It presents a graphical view of shrinking and > >&

Re: LVM resize sanity check

2008-10-22 Thread brian
brian wrote: Robert Locke wrote: As an alternative, that might be easier, why not install "system-config-lvm"? It presents a graphical view of shrinking and enlarging. Thanks, I'll check that out. That looks easy to use. However, I can't unmount /tmp so it look

Re: LVM resize sanity check

2008-10-22 Thread Craig White
gt; >> # resize2fs /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol03 # mount /tmp > >> > >> Does that ring any alarm bells? > >> > >> [1] http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ > > I don't know about alarm bells but I would think that you would > > have to

Re: LVM resize sanity check

2008-10-22 Thread brian
on where things are That was supposed to be the point of LVM. No moving necessary. They are both on the Volume Group, space doesn't have to be contiguous, etc, etc That's what I thought. I would suggest that when reducing you should use the "same numbers" for both re

Re: LVM resize sanity check

2008-10-22 Thread brian
00/LogVol04 # mount /var # umount /tmp # e2fsck -f /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol03 # lvextend -L+6G /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol03 # resize2fs /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol03 # mount /tmp Does that ring any alarm bells? [1] http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ I don't know about alarm bells but I woul

Re: LVM resize sanity check

2008-10-22 Thread Robert Locke
On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 09:09 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 11:42 -0400, brian wrote: > > I have a /tmp volume that I'd like to increase. I've been having a look > > at the LVM HOWTO [1] and various other pages online and think I've got > >

Re: LVM resize sanity check

2008-10-22 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 11:42 -0400, brian wrote: > I have a /tmp volume that I'd like to increase. I've been having a look > at the LVM HOWTO [1] and various other pages online and think I've got > it figured out. Those being famous last words, I thought I'd check

LVM resize sanity check

2008-10-22 Thread brian
I have a /tmp volume that I'd like to increase. I've been having a look at the LVM HOWTO [1] and various other pages online and think I've got it figured out. Those being famous last words, I thought I'd check here first. # parted /dev/sda print Model: ATA Maxtor 6Y080L0

Re: LVM script at bootup ??

2008-10-12 Thread William Case
Thanks Mikkel; On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 18:36 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > William Case wrote: > > > > It's OK Mikkel, I gotcha anyways. I have checked rc.sysinit and it does > > a > > 'if [ -x /sbin/lvm ]; then > > action $"Setting up L

Re: LVM script at bootup ??

2008-10-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
William Case wrote: > > It's OK Mikkel, I gotcha anyways. I have checked rc.sysinit and it does > a > 'if [ -x /sbin/lvm ]; then > action $"Setting up Logical Volume Management:" /sbin/lvm vgchange -a y > --ignorelockingfailure > fi > > I

Re: LVM script at bootup ??

2008-10-12 Thread William Case
Hi; On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 17:39 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > William Case wrote: > >> Hi; > >> > >> At boot up, the first thing that init.d seems to look for after udev is > >> an LVM fs set up. Finding none, bec

Re: LVM script at bootup ??

2008-10-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > William Case wrote: >> Hi; >> >> At boot up, the first thing that init.d seems to look for after udev is >> an LVM fs set up. Finding none, because I am not using LVM, it >> continues to boot echoing every service. What is the name of

Re: LVM script at bootup ??

2008-10-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
William Case wrote: > Hi; > > At boot up, the first thing that init.d seems to look for after udev is > an LVM fs set up. Finding none, because I am not using LVM, it > continues to boot echoing every service. What is the name of this LVM > checking service and how do I tur

LVM script at bootup ??

2008-10-12 Thread William Case
Hi; At boot up, the first thing that init.d seems to look for after udev is an LVM fs set up. Finding none, because I am not using LVM, it continues to boot echoing every service. What is the name of this LVM checking service and how do I turn it off? Service xxx stop?? -- Regards Bill Fedora

Re: Hardware Raid Expansion and LVM

2008-10-10 Thread Seann Clark
side is up and running as it should. Problem is I don't know how to extend LVM to a larger size, without doing the whole adding of physical drives, and so forth, and the pv display doesn't show more than the 1.4TB that I started with. Most documentation details software RAID procedures

Re: Hardware Raid Expansion and LVM

2008-10-10 Thread Roberto Ragusa
side is up and running as it > should. Problem is I don't know how to extend LVM to a larger size, > without doing the whole adding of physical drives, and so forth, and the > pv display doesn't show more than the 1.4TB that I started with. Most > documentation details software R

Re: Hardware Raid Expansion and LVM

2008-10-09 Thread Dennis Gilmore
of > the disks well, and everything on that side is up and running as it > should. Problem is I don't know how to extend LVM to a larger size, > without doing the whole adding of physical drives, and so forth, and the > pv display doesn't show more than the 1.4TB that I start

Hardware Raid Expansion and LVM

2008-10-09 Thread Seann Clark
. Problem is I don't know how to extend LVM to a larger size, without doing the whole adding of physical drives, and so forth, and the pv display doesn't show more than the 1.4TB that I started with. Most documentation details software RAID procedures that don't really work with t

Re: LVM big problem

2008-10-04 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Luc MAIGNAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've setup a LVM volume on several disks. It appears that one at > least of the disks has crashed. Is there a way to recover data on > the good disks or all is lost ? >From your backups? (Sorry! Been there, felt your pain.)

Re: LVM big problem

2008-10-04 Thread Remi Collet
Luc MAIGNAN a écrit : > Hi, > > I've setup a LVM volume on several disks. > It appears that one at least of the disks has crashed. > > Is there a way to recover data on the good disks or all is lost ? try in rescue mode : lvm vgreduce --test --removem

LVM big problem

2008-10-04 Thread Luc MAIGNAN
Hi, I've setup a LVM volume on several disks. It appears that one at least of the disks has crashed. Is there a way to recover data on the good disks or all is lost ? Thanks for any help BR -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/ma

Re: LVM Question

2008-09-24 Thread Gene Poole
That's what I forgot! resize2fs! I greatly appreciate the replies. Thanks, Gene Poole -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: LVM Question

2008-09-24 Thread Robert Locke
On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 19:20 +0530, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Gene Poole wrote: > > I performed an extend (lvextend) on a file system that was running out > > of space. All of the return codes and messages showed a good > > completion. However, when I did a

Re: LVM Question

2008-09-24 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Gene Poole wrote: > I performed an extend (lvextend) on a file system that was running out > of space. All of the return codes and messages showed a good > completion. However, when I did a display on the file system (df -m > /work) it didn't show that the file sys

LVM Question

2008-09-24 Thread Gene Poole
I performed an extend (lvextend) on a file system that was running out of space. All of the return codes and messages showed a good completion. However, when I did a display on the file system (df -m /work) it didn't show that the file system had been extended. The first display command was:

Re: How to mount an LVM volume? (was lvm2 problem)

2008-09-24 Thread Bill Crawford
v/VolGroup-F9 (or something like that - man > >vgrename). > > > >(although in rescue mode, this would be lvm vgrename) > > > >if you put the other disk back afterwards, the names will no longer clash > > <<<<< > > Good afternoon, Stuart. > >

Re: How to mount an LVM volume? (was lvm2 problem)

2008-09-23 Thread Eric
in rescue mode, this would be lvm vgrename) if you put the other disk back afterwards, the names will no longer clash <<<<< Good afternoon, Stuart. I tried that and found that I can't do that with the boot drive, else it will no longer boot. I assume that I have to edit /et

Re: How to mount an LVM volume? (was lvm2 problem)

2008-09-23 Thread Stuart Sears
on a new hard drive, >> and I need to mount the old FC5 boot disk to copy some stuff off of it. >> >> "mount /dev/sdb2 /driveb" doesn't work for the reasons noted >> (/dev/sdb2 is a container and not a volume). >> >> So, I said "lvm vgscan" an

Re: How to mount an LVM volume? (was lvm2 problem)

2008-09-23 Thread Alasdair G Kergon
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:35:21AM -0400, Eric wrote: > At 08:40 PM 9/22/2008, Paul W. Frields wrote: > >>>>> > >The LVM system uses UUIDs (which are almost guaranteed to be unique) to > >label each LVM PV, VG, and LV. I believe you can use "vgscan" to &

Re: How to mount an LVM volume? (was lvm2 problem)

2008-09-23 Thread Gene Poole
> "mount /dev/sdb2 /driveb" doesn't work for the reasons noted > (/dev/sdb2 is a container and not a volume). > > So, I said "lvm vgscan" and got: > > File descriptor 20 left open >Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... >Fou

Re: How to mount an LVM volume? (was lvm2 problem)

2008-09-22 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Eric wrote: > If I then go and physically reconnect the second drive (the old FC5 > drive), there is no lvm command that will allow me to see both drives > AND see their UIDs... the only command that will let me see the UID is > vgscan, and that one w

Re: How to mount an LVM volume? (was lvm2 problem)

2008-09-22 Thread Eric
At 08:40 PM 9/22/2008, Paul W. Frields wrote: >>>>> The LVM system uses UUIDs (which are almost guaranteed to be unique) to label each LVM PV, VG, and LV. I believe you can use "vgscan" to display them, and then reference the UUID of the VG in question when you run &

Re: How to mount an LVM volume? (was lvm2 problem)

2008-09-22 Thread Paul W. Frields
lGroup on one drive > is 00 and the one on another drive is 01. > > Until I can resolve that one issue, I cannot mount my old FC6 drive, at all. The LVM system uses UUIDs (which are almost guaranteed to be unique) to label each LVM PV, VG, and LV. I believe you can use "vgscan&quo

Re: How to mount an LVM volume? (was lvm2 problem)

2008-09-22 Thread Eric
At 07:54 PM 9/22/2008, Antonio Olivares wrote: > You can try to use Slax Linux Live CD(get the latest slax608rc6.iso. http://www.slax.org/forum.php?action=view&parentID=17340 or you can also use: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=707874 to find out answers! < Good even

Re: How to mount an LVM volume? (was lvm2 problem)

2008-09-22 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Mon, 9/22/08, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: How to mount an LVM volume? (was lvm2 problem) > To: fedora-list@redhat.com > Date: Monday, September 22, 2008, 1:41 PM > At 12:45 PM 9/22/2008, Chris Tyler wrote: > >

How to mount an LVM volume? (was lvm2 problem)

2008-09-22 Thread Eric
doing a fresh install on a new hard drive, and I need to mount the old FC5 boot disk to copy some stuff off of it. "mount /dev/sdb2 /driveb" doesn't work for the reasons noted (/dev/sdb2 is a container and not a volume). So, I said "lvm vgscan" and got: File descri

Re: lvm resizing and shifting

2008-08-23 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 20:09 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > I was able to reduce the size of the logical volumes, move the logical > > volumes so they are adjacent and then reduce the size of the physical > > LVM but I cannot seem to reduce the par

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