[linux-lvm] lvm and fstab

[Cristian Livadaru]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 04:10:31PM +0200, ThomasC. wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using RHEL3.
> I have been reading the LVM howto and it is very clear but i am missing 
> something anyways.
> During the setup with DiskDruid i created a Volume group and two logical 
> volumes.
> One LV for /opt and another one for /stage.
> After rebooting the OS i don't have any /stage partition.
> 
> lvscan
> lvscan -- ACTIVE            "/dev/Volume00/LogVol00" [19.53 GB]
> lvscan -- ACTIVE            "/dev/Volume00/LogVol01" [19.53 GB]
> lvscan -- 2 logical volumes with 39.06 GB total in 1 volume group
> lvscan -- 2 active logical volumes
> 
> But the fstab doesn't point to any Logical volume:
> 
> The fstab contains
> LABEL=/1                /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
> LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
> none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p3       swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
> /dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              udf,iso9660 
> noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> 
> and a df -h returns
> 
> [root at Pearl remarkit]# df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p4     9.7G  2.4G  6.8G  27% /
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p1      97M   14M   78M  15% /boot
> none                  1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev/shm
> 
> 
> So i don't understand what is really inside the logical volumes are they 
> "empty" right now?
> 

I don't know what Diskdruid does since I don't know RH but you have to
enter the mount points manualy in fstab or mount the partitions manualy
...
you could do a mount /dev/Volume00/LogVol00 /opt and then you should
have what you want.

Best Regards, Cristian Livadaru