[linux-lvm] lvm in SuSE 7.3

[linux-lvm] lvm in SuSE 7.3

[r.kahrl]

Hello.

I just wondered what LVM in Yast2 means and opened it... but i didn't want to create a LV on my System, so i closed the program without creating a Logical Volume. If i restart my system, LVM reports no volume group was found and starts vgchange. How can i remove this problem?

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Ralf Kahrl
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Re: [linux-lvm] lvm in SuSE 7.3

[Friedrich Lobenstock]

On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 10:12, r.kahrl@web.de wrote:

> I just wondered what LVM in Yast2 means and opened it... but i
> didn't want to create a LV on my System, so i closed the program
> without creating a Logical Volume. If i restart my system, LVM
> reports no volume group was found and starts vgchange. How can i
> remove this problem?

rm -fR /etc/lvmtab.d/
should do the trick for you.

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Friedrich Lobenstock

Re: [linux-lvm] lvm in SuSE 7.3

[Petro]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 10:12:21AM +0100, r.kahrl@web.de wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I just wondered what LVM in Yast2 means and opened it... but i didn't want to create a LV on my System, so i closed the program without creating a Logical Volume. If i restart my system, LVM reports no volume group was found and starts vgchange. How can i remove this problem?

    It's not really a "problem", but if the SUSE kernel loads everything
    modularly, then you could check your modules.conf file and see if
    it's loading LVM. If so get rid of that line.

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Re: [linux-lvm] lvm in SuSE 7.3

[Friedrich Lobenstock]

On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 11:07, Petro wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 10:12:21AM +0100, r.kahrl@web.de wrote:
> >
> > If i restart my system, LVM reports no volume group was found and
> > starts vgchange. How can i remove this problem?
>
>     It's not really a "problem", but if the SUSE kernel loads everything
>     modularly, then you could check your modules.conf file and see if
>     it's loading LVM. If so get rid of that line.

No that has nothing to do with modules. Look at this line from
/etc/init.d/boot (this is from SuSE 7.1 but should apply 1:1 to 7.3)
#
# Find and activate volume groups (HM 1/1/1999)
#
if test -d /etc/lvmtab.d/ -a -x /sbin/vgscan -a -x /sbin/vgchange ; then
    echo "Run file system check on root for LVM activation"
    while read des fs type rest; do
        case "$fs" in

So if he get's rid of the /etc/lvmtab.d/, created by the lvm tools then
the system will not try to activate LVM on boot.

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Friedrich Lobenstock