[linux-lvm] 'vgscan' at boot-up
Sander
sander at sanderscorner.com
Sat Nov 6 09:58:28 UTC 2004
David S. wrote:
>I'm using lvm2-2.00.15 and device-mapper-1.00.17 on a Slackware (x86)
>system, with a 2.6.9 kernel and udev-026. I've created a volume
>group and a logical volume without any trouble, but the file system
>I built on the volume won't mount at boot-up. That's apparently
>because the 'vgscan' program run from the system initialization
>script does not find an volume groups. After the system boots,
>'vgscan' works fine. I can get the file system mounted by putting
>
> /sbin/vgscan 2>/dev/null
> sleep 10
> /sbin/vgchange -ay
> /sbin/mount -a
>
>in 'rc.local'. Does anyone have a idea why 'vgscan' would fail
>in the sytem initialization script, but succeed in 'rc.local'?
>
>David S.
>
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What version of Slackware? I use LVM with 8.1 and 9.1. In 9.1 it should
work 'out-of-the-box' in 8.1 I had to put the LVM mounting stuf my
self. Did you put / on a logical volume? Is /proc mounted before you
try to bring the volumes online (i remember I had to do that in 8.1)
Sander
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