[linux-lvm] '/etc/init.d/lvm' script in debian package

Patrick Caulfield patrick at tykepenguin.com
Thu Dec 21 09:04:37 UTC 2000


On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 09:37:58AM +0100, Gergely Tamas wrote:
> 
> A few ideas ...
> 1) if LVM is compiled into the kernel and /boot/System.map is reachable,
> than it could be detected using e.g. 'grep lvm System.map'
> 
> 2) if /usr/src/kernel/.config is reachable, than it could be detected
> using e.g. 'grep -i lvm .config'
> 
> 3) maybe doing a check for directories countaining 'group' in /dev would
> be a usable idea...

How about looking in /proc/devices for the lvm block & char devices ?

patrick




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