[linux-lvm] the curious case of the semi-created Logical Volume

[Patrick Caulfield]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 03:30:45PM +0000, Andy Cowling wrote:
> SuSE 7.0 with 4 x 8Gb SCSI disks. All filesystems are ext2.
> 
> I have created PV's, VG's and 2 LV's each of 8Gb and created ext2
> filesystems on them and mounted them successfully.
> 
> Now I want to extend 'lv02' to 16Gb but lvextend claims the LV is not
> active. Similarly lvdisplay only lists the LV using '-d'.
> 
> I created this setup using Yast (not the command-line).
> 
> Is there any way to retrieve the situation ? I am not at all familiar
> with LVM configuration files and this is a live system   :-(
> 
> Thanks, as always, for any help.

Can you do a lvdisplay -v on the volume so we can see just why LVM thinks it is
inactive please ?

patrick