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OK, now I have another problem.  I got vgscan to run fine now off of my 
boot CD, but now the system fails the vgscan on boot (/ is an LVM) with 
an 'ERROR 28 writing volume group backup file /etc/...'

I'm assuming this is because the initrd created by lvmcreate_initrd is 
not big enough to accomodate the metadata backup.  What size is this 
generally (lvmcreate_initrd says it calculates this automatically) and 
to what size should I set this manually to get this to work?  How much 
space do I need for the backups during vgscan?

Thanks.

Kelly Corbin wrote:

> Doh! I didn't get what you were saying in your first reply.  I'm sure 
> that's it.  It's running in an init. ramdisk image and there's very 
> little actual space.  Generally speaking, how big do those backups get?
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 02:20:44PM -0600, Kelly Corbin wrote:
>>
>> It is probably too little free space in the root fs.
>> Because you've got somany extents the size of the metadata backup is 
>> bigger
>> as well.
>>
>> Check your root fs free space, please.
>>
>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>> Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Error 2 is ENOENT (no entry).
>>>> Could be a space problem in case / run full.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --
>>>
> 
> 


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