Please help! Lost my LVM VG...

[Bryn M. Reeves]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
>> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>>> Andrew Junev wrote:
>>>> What shall I do to automatically activate this VG during
>>>> boot?
>>>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
> 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 activated at boot when listed in that file, it's a bug.

> think I have the correct file.) This one reason the / file system 
> had to be remounted rw.

No. Type 1 locking (local file based locks stored in /var) failed to
initialise because the directory /var/lock/lvm was not writable.

Regards,
Bryn.