Re: F17 boot with lvm does not create all the device nodes

2013-11-18 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/18/2013 05:50 AM, Deron Meranda wrote: > Continuing the exploration of my problem... > > Quick problem summary: I could not boot past emergency mode because it > could not mount /var; which is a separate filesystem than /. My /var > filesystem

Re: F17 boot with lvm does not create all the device nodes

2013-11-18 Thread Deron Meranda
Continuing the exploration of my problem... Quick problem summary: I could not boot past emergency mode because it could not mount /var; which is a separate filesystem than /. My /var filesystem is a LUKS-encrypted logical volume, which happens to be on /dev/dm-11. Although the logical volume i

Re: F17 boot with lvm does not create all the device nodes

2013-11-17 Thread Deron Meranda
Here's some more information. It looks like all the LVM device files that correspond to a device mapper minor number of 10 or greater are missing. I have four such devices (logical volumes). After boot the lvm devices look like, lvhome -> ../dm-9 lvroot -> ../dm-1 ... and so on. All the device

F17 boot with lvm does not create all the device nodes

2013-11-17 Thread Deron Meranda
I have an F17 server that will no longer boot. When entering emergency mode, it looks like not all of the device file nodes are being created. All of the physician volumes and volume groups are okay, but only some of the logical volumes have their device files created. In particular the volume c