Re: [linux-lvm] "umount" LVM stuff

[David Corbin <dcorbin@machturtle.com>]

Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote:

piano:/home/dcorbin# vgscan
vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
vgscan -- found active volume group "vg0"
vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created
vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume 
group

But, ls -ltar /dev/vg0 is essentially the same. 

>David,
>
>try vgscan then which should bring your device node back.
>
>Regards,
>Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --
>
>
>On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 07:48:05AM -0500, David Corbin wrote:
>  
>
>>>This all looks ok.
>>>
>>>Doesn't "vgchange -a y" bring your VG back ?
>>>If not so, try "vgscan ; vgchange -ay".
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>piano:/home/dcorbin# vgchange -ay
>>vgchange -- volume group "vg0" already active
>>
>>So, it appears that the VG IS there.
>>----
>> piano:/home/dcorbin# mount -t reiserfs /dev/vg0/data /data
>>mount: special device /dev/vg0/data does not exist
>>
>>/dev/vg0/data is the device I used to use to mount it, and the error 
>>message is correct if I look at my filesystem (it doesn't exist).
>>----
>>piano:/home/dcorbin# mount -t reiserfs /dev/vg0/group  /data
>>mount: /dev/vg0/group is not a block device
>>
>>I tried this command because /dev/vg0/group is the only device in /dev/vg0
>>----
>>Here are some other commands that I tried that may or may not tell you 
>>something...
>>
>>piano:/home/dcorbin# 
>>lvscan                                                                                                                
>>lvscan -- no logical volumes found
>>piano:/home/dcorbin# ls -ltar /dev/vg0
>>total 28
>>crw-r-----    1 root     disk     109,   0 Feb 24 06:53 group
>>drwxr-xr-x   10 root     root        24576 Feb 24 06:53 ..
>>dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Feb 24 06:53 .
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Regards,
>>>Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>
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