LVM, resize /, & FC3 defaults
Felipe Alfaro Solana
lkml at mac.com
Sat Feb 12 20:40:11 UTC 2005
On 12 Feb 2005, at 21:22, Jim Cornette wrote:
> Gordon Ewasiuk wrote:
>
>> Hi Fedora List,
>>
>> Ran into a problem with LVM and FC3. I can work around the problem
>> but was curious if anyone here has experienced the roadblock I hit.
>>
>> I installed FC3 in a testbed. I accepted the default partition
>> scheme which defaulted to LVM use on a single drive.
>>
>> A few weeks later, I went to resize the LVM partition. First I had
>> resize the ext3 filesystem with resize2fs. I couldn't do a resize
>> operation on a mounted / partition. Not a problem. I boot from
>> Rescue CD...
>>
>> which can't see LVM partitions?
>>
>> I understand the technical problems about a generic rescue CD
>> detecting the infinite number of possible LVM combinations and
>> configurations. That led me to wonder about the wisdom of having LVM
>> as the default during installation of FC3.
>>
>> Comments please?
>>
>
> Another problem with having LVM installed by default is the trying to
> install the next release in text mode does not recognize the LVM based
> installation.
> the LVM is recognized using the GUI installer. This might be similar
> to what you are running into when using the rescue CD to attempt to
> resize the drives. A consideration might be to add a parameter to the
> boot command to load lvm related processes to be able to adjust your
> lvm sizes to your desired specifications.
Once booted into text-mode rescue, invoke the following commands:
lvm lvscan
lvm vgchange -ay
This will scan for all LVM volumes and then will make them active and
accessible.
lvm vgchange -an
will deactivate them all.
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