[linux-lvm] Accessing LVM partitions from a rescue system
Heinz J . Mauelshagen
mauelshagen at sistina.com
Mon Nov 25 08:25:01 UTC 2002
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 03:00:26PM +0100, Pantaleimon wrote:
> On Monday 25 November 2002 11:33, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 01:39:30AM +0100, Anders Widman wrote:
> > > Looks like something is wrong with accessing all of your disks from
> > >
> > > the rescue floppy.. look at the pvscan:
> > > >From rescue environment:
> > >
> > > pvscan -- total: 20 [201.08 GB}
> > >
> > > Normal boot:
> > > pvscan -- total: 21 [211.14 GB]
> > >
> > > You need to sort out what disks/partitions that are not accessible
> > > from the rescue disks... You can also try ungrading LVM as 1.01 is
> > > quite old...
> >
> > Yes, that will solve it. You are running a quote old release candidate
> > of LVM still.
> > 1.0.1-rc2 failed on IDE partitions larger than 15.
> > BTW: 1.0.1 had support for 64 partitions on IDE in.
> >
> > Please take 1.0.6 and retry.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Heinz -- The LVM Guy --
> >
>
> I get it. That solves the mystrey concerning hda16. But why can't I mount the
> LVM partitions from the rescue environment when they get mounted during a
> normal boot. I had a look at the boot script and it does the same thing as
> I'm doing manually from rescue. Even if an upgrade will solve that problem
> too I am a bit curious about what causes vgscan to fail in the rescue
> environment.
Yeah, pretty strange...
Forgot to ask: you run the _very_ same (LVM) versions on the rescue media too ?
Regards,
Heinz -- The LVM Guy --
>
>
>
> > > - Anders
> > >
> > > > Hello
> > > >
> > > > I am trying to mount my LVM partitions manually after booting into a
> > > > rescue system from floppies. I am not able to do this. During a normal
> > > > boot from my harddisk LVM works just fine. Notice the output from
> > > > pvscan and lvmdiskscan below. I ran those commands first from the
> > > > rescue system and then from a normally booted system. In the rescue
> > > > system /dev/hda16 is not there. I don't know if that is related to my
> > > > problem, though.
> > > >
> > > > Here are the details of what I am doing:
> > > >
> > > > Setup:
> > > >
> > > > boot partition /dev/hda2 type Linux with Ext2
> >
> > <SNIP>
> >
> > > > lvmdiskscan -- 28 partitions
> > > > lvmdiskscan -- 20 LVM physical volume partitions
> > > >
> > > >
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> > > > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
> > >
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