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

[Stuart D. Gathman]

On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Faheem Mitha wrote:

>> 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.

One of the things activating a VG does is create the symlinks in /dev/mapper.

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