lvm

[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  experience any problem but when
>> I boot the machine on the logical partition I get an error from the
>> /etc/fstab.
>>
>> 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 e2fsck with an alternate
>> superblock:
>>       e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
>>
>> I am using grub,
>>
>> In the fstab I put:
>> /dev/VG1/usr	/usr
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> What did I miss ?
>>
>> Regards.
>
> You probably need to rebuild the initrd for your kernel to know about the new
> logical volume name(s).
>
Yes, I may agree with this, how can I do it ?
Do you know a good site where I can get the right information (it is a
Fedora 7) ?

Thank.
>

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