[linux-lvm] vgscan creation of device nodes for volume groups.

[Heinz J. Mauelshagen]

On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 10:24:38PM -0800, Jay Weber wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've noticed the following and am wondering about the proper way to handle
> this.
> 

A fast workaround (assuming bash) to avoid those invalid entries
in /dev/ would be:

(cd /dev;ls -A /etc/lvmtab.d/|xargs rm -r)

You need to run it *before* vgscan for sure, because vgscan starts with
removing /etc/lvmtab*.

One extension could be to let vgscan do the removal job itself.

> I'll try to explain by example, since it's kinda awkward.
> 
> I've created 3 volume groups.  vol0, vol1, vol2.  On these I have a

<SNIP>

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