From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] "umount" LVM stuff Message-ID: <20030225162138.C832@sistina.com> References: <3E58E03E.3020401@machturtle.com> <20030223181304.V14285@zealot.blacknet.de> <3E5919A3.2010404@machturtle.com> <20030224021555.Y14285@zealot.blacknet.de> <20030224022433.Z14285@zealot.blacknet.de> <3E5A0961.80905@machturtle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3E5A0961.80905@machturtle.com>; from dcorbin@machturtle.com on Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 07:00:33AM -0500 Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Tue Feb 25 09:27:02 2003 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Following this thread it kind of looks like you worked around using LVM commands (i.e. removed a VG w/o using lvremove + vgremove). If so, not a good idea :( What does pvscan list ? What does vgck say ? On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 07:00:33AM -0500, David Corbin wrote: > Goetz Bock wrote: > > >On Mon, Feb 24 '03 at 02:15, Goetz Bock wrote: > > > > > >>>Attempts to access the logical volume I used to fail. > >>> > >>> > >>You have disabled it, it's gone. > >> > >> > >Don't panik :-> > > > >your LVM will reappear, once you enable it again (vgchange -a y) > >still, read some docs. > > > > > > I have read some docs. I've spent hours combing the Net for the > answers, without success. > > I *had* a working system. But, I use the LVM commands so rarely, I can > never repeat what I did (notes or not). > > piano:/home/dcorbin# sh -x /etc/init.d/lvm start > + modprobe lvm > + modprobe lvm-mod > + '[' -e /proc/lvm ']' > + '[' -e /etc/lvmtab ']' > + '[' -x /sbin/vgscan ']' > + echo 'Setting up LVM Volume Groups...' > Setting up LVM Volume Groups... > + /sbin/vgscan --verbose > + /sbin/vgchange -a y --verbose > > piano:/home/dcorbin# mount /data > mount: special device /dev/vg0/data does not exist > > The reason you hear "panic" in my typing is the last line. :) > ---- > Fundamentally, I'm building a critical data file server. LVM has caused > me enough problems and delays, that I'm about ready to bypass it, saying > it is putting my data at risk. Feel free to convince me otherwise. > > Thanks > David > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-