Ian Petts([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I'm fairly new to LVM, but I've been having an intermittant problem that > I hope someone can help me with. > > Every few (2-10ish) reboots of my machine, my LV fails to be recognised. > > I'm running Debian Sid with: > > === 8< === > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ wajig status-match lvm > Package Installed Previous Now State > =======================-===============-===============-===============-===== > lvm-common 1.5.20 1.5.20 1.5.20 > install > lvm2 2.01.04-5 2.01.04-5 2.01.04-5 > install > [... not-installed-stuff deleted ...]
Odd. I am running the same versions as you and I have never had an lvm failure since setting it up. IIRC that would be over 2 years. I have all my lvm volumes using reiserfs. This may be of interest to you, VT1 root-3-Buddy:~# mount /dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/mapper/lv_home_group-lv_home on /home type reiserfs (rw) /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) /dev/mapper/local-lv_usr on /usr type reiserfs (rw) /dev/mapper/local-lv_local on /usr/local type reiserfs (rw) /dev/mapper/backups-lv_backup on /backups type reiserfs (rw) /dev/mapper/spare-pgm3 on /pgm3 type reiserfs (rw) /dev/mapper/spare-album on /album type reiserfs (rw) /dev/hda5 on /var type ext3 (rw) /dev/hdb9 on /extra type ext3 (rw) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) VT1 root-3-Buddy:~# less /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/lv_home_group/lv_home /home reiserfs defaults 2 2 /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/local/lv_usr /usr reiserfs defaults 2 2 #/dev/hda3 /Knoppix ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/local/lv_local /usr/local reiserfs defaults 2 2 /dev/backups/lv_backup /backups reiserfs defaults 2 2 /dev/spare/pgm3 /pgm3 reiserfs defaults 2 2 /dev/spare/album /album reiserfs defaults 2 2 /dev/hda5 /var ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/hdb9 /extra ext3 defaults 0 0 #/dev/hdb10 /knoppix ext3 defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hdb3 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/dvd iso9660 rw,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 #/dev/hdc /mnt/UDFDVD auto ro,user,noatime 0 0 /dev/pktcdvd/cdrom /media/cdrw udf noauto,noatime,user,rw 0 0 /dev/pktcdvd/dvd /media/dvd udf noauto,noatime,user,rw 0 0 VT1 root-3-Buddy:~# ls -l /dev/mapper total 26K drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1.0K 2006-04-29 12:23 ./ drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 24K 2006-04-29 12:23 ../ brw------- 1 root root 253, 4 2006-04-29 12:23 backups-lv_backup crw------- 1 root root 10, 62 2005-01-01 16:41 control brw------- 1 root root 253, 2 2006-04-29 12:23 local-lv_local brw------- 1 root root 253, 3 2006-04-29 12:23 local-lv_usr brw------- 1 root root 253, 5 2006-04-29 12:23 lv_home_group-lv_home brw------- 1 root root 253, 1 2006-04-29 12:23 spare-album brw------- 1 root root 253, 0 2006-04-29 12:23 spare-pgm3 I set this up a long time ago using the inforation provided by the LVM Howto's available on the net as well the LVM Howto included in the doc-linux-text package. Hope this helps, some. Wayne -- The program is absolutely right; therefore the computer must be wrong. _______________________________________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
