<html><head></head><body><div class="gmail_quote">"Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart@bmsi.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap:break-word; ">On Tue, 7 Jun 2011, Stuart D. Gathman wrote: >>> Exporting the VG is *supposed* to prevent activation. You can reverse >>> this with vgimport. Why did you wish to prevent activation? Normally, >>> vgexport is used prior to physically removing a VG from the system. (And >>> then vgimport after attaching the drives to the new system.) >> >> Well, I just want to keep my data intact while i'm playing with the >> installation. I understand that @ this point it's just easier to pull >> the power on the HDs with the VG in question. But i'm curious why this >> is a problem... > > It isn't a problem, unless you expect the VG to be available at boot time, > which apparently you do. Do you have a root FS on the VG? I get it - you wanted to prevent your OS experimentation from activating and possibly writing over your VG. I can understand why vgexport seemed like a solution, but it only prevents activation and removes references from local LVM configuration (and prevents booting when that depends on the VG as you discovered). It doesn't prevent a rogue/buggy OS from scribbling on the disks. So, physically disconnecting (or powering off) the disks is the best way to prevent that. -- Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@bmsi.com> Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154 "Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis" - background song for a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial.<hr />linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm</a> read the LVM HOW-TO at <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/">http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/</a> </pre></blockquote></div><br clear="all">After stressing out about he insraller messing out with my "precious" :) data, the installation went remarkably well. I still think that it should not terminate because of exported volumes thou.<br> Andrew <br> -- <br> Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.</body></html>