[linux-lvm] lvm 1 unable to boot
Patrick Caulfield
pcaulfie at redhat.com
Wed Mar 31 15:49:15 UTC 2004
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 03:59:39PM +0100, Geoff Dolman wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a machine with the following partition structure:
>
> /dev/sda1 /boot (ext3)
> /dev/sda2 swap
> /dev/sda3 LVM
>
> The LVM (1.03/rh9) contains one PV and this has Volume00 in it which
> contains lvs for slash, usr, var, /usr/local and so on...
>
> I rebooted the machine for the first time in ages (same kernel
> configuration as the last reboot and no changes - or very few).
>
> The machine won't reboot - it panics because of a message (something)
> like:
>
> vgscan found inactive "Volume00"
> Error 28 Unable to make /etc/lvmtab.d/Volume00/Volume00.tmp
> vg_cfgbackup.c line 273
>
Error 28 is ENOSPC - your initrd is too small to hold the metadata backups.
--
patrick
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