[linux-lvm] lvm devices under /dev/mapper missing

[Faheem Mitha]

Hi Stuart,

Thanks for your reply.

On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:15:45 -0400 (EDT), Stuart D. Gathman <stuart at bmsi.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Faheem Mitha wrote:

>> The symbolic links under /dev/mapper have gone missing. I don't
>> know why. I'm looking for advice on how to diagnose and fix this
>> (if necessary). I believe udev dynamically generates these links,
>> so in the best case scenario nothing needs to be done. But I don't
>> know if there might be other problems I'm not aware of.

> You might need "vgchange -ay myvg".

This activates volume groups. Is this the problem, and is so, why? I
thought the issue was that something had deleted my symbolic links
under /dev/mapper. Still no idea why.

                                                     Regards, Faheem

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