[linux-lvm] LVM and multiple distributions

[Heinz J. Mauelshagen]

On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 11:28:41AM +0530, Shanker Balan wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I have been using LVM for some time on RHL 7.0 (with 7.1 updates) and
> things have been working excellent. LVM is k3wl.
> 
> Last week, i installed Debian on a another partition on the same machine
> and for some odd reason "vgchange -ay" sez "no volume groups found".
> 
> godzilla:~# vgchange -ay
> vgchange -- no volume groups found
> 
> Everything works correctly on RHL. What do i need to do under Debian to
> get the LVM partition up?

Did you run vgscan in order to read the metadata?
"vgchange -ay" afterwards.

> 
> I am using:
> 
> Debian Unstable
> Kernel 2.4.4 with LVM compiled in
> lvm 0.9.1beta7-1
> 
> RedHat Linux 7.1
> Kernel 2.4.4 with LVM compiled in
> 
> Fdisk output:
> godzilla:~# fdisk -l /dev/hda|grep -i lvm
> /dev/hda8          1803      2185   3076416   8e  Linux LVM
> 
> Thanx for your time.
> 
> -- Shanu
> 
>  -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -  - ( Shanu )  -  -
>  Shanker Balan							shanu at exocore.com
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