Please help! Lost my LVM VG...

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Thu Feb 12 19:13:12 UTC 2009


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 initialisation failed"
>>> no matter what command I enter...
> 
>> Check that the file system providing /var has been mounted and is 
>> writable.
> 
>> Assuming it's part of / you probably just need to run:
> 
>> mount -n -oremount,rw /
> 
> Ah, that worked!
> Thank you!
> 
> What shall I do to automatically activate this VG during boot?
> 
If I understand the VG commands correctly, you just did.

Mikkel
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