[linux-lvm] Seg fault on vgscan

Shaw, Marco marco.shaw at nbtel.nb.ca
Fri Apr 7 18:01:24 UTC 2000


> This is very bad.  You should not use LVM on existing partitions.  Does it
> not say anything in this regard in the documentation?  Probably, as a
> safety measure, the LVM commands should verify that a partition is not
> mounted before doing a pvcreate/vgcreate on it.

I've not seen this in writing anywhere, but could have missed it.  I would
hope there's a way to handle root_vg filesystems.  I thought I saw something
in the archives regarding 'encapsulating' the root partition...  
 
Thanks,
Marco




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