From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3FE37C0B.2080609@alteeve.com> From: Madison Kelly MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Ext3 -> ReiserFS on '/' convertion prob References: <3FE2892B.8000506@alteeve.com> <1071846372.22613.2.camel@gecko.indygecko.com> <3FE32D1A.6040500@alteeve.com> <1071857908.22615.13.camel@gecko.indygecko.com> <3FE357AA.6090305@alteeve.com> <3FE36341.5070105@stercomm.com> <3FE36579.8090605@alteeve.com> <3FE36BAF.7030406@stercomm.com> In-Reply-To: <3FE36BAF.7030406@stercomm.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Fri Dec 19 16:31:02 2003 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com I will investigate that further... May I make one more comment that may help me solve this? Quick note, since the last post I wiped the test server and re-installed, just in case I had foobar'ed something along the way. I have made a backup of '/' (from '/dev/vg0/root') to the backup drive (/dev/sdd1) and edited '/etc/fstab', '/etc/mtab' and deleted '/etc/blkid.tab' (which, if I understand is just a cache). I did this on both the '/' (/dev/vg0/root and /dev/sdd1) while under the Linux Rescue disk (Fedora Core 1 install in 'linux rescue') and finally I updated '/boot/grub/grub.conf' on both partitions as well to contain entries pointing '/' to '/dev/sdd1'. When I reboot (before converting the LVM LV to ReiserFS) and choose to boot into '/dev/sdd1' as root it -seems- to work. When I type: # df It shows '/' to be '/dev/sdd'. Now to verify this I did: # cd / # touch test.txt # mkdir vg0 # mount /dev/vg0/root /vg0 I then checked to see if the 'test.txt' file was there, and it was. How the heck can the original settings for '/dev/vg0/root' be -SO- persistent that even 'df' thinks that the wrong partition is mounted?!? Where are these settings stored? Side note: When I boot again off the rescue disk and run the same test (with '/dev/sdd1' mounted as '/') then it is fine, there '/' really is '/dev/sdd1'...) Anyway, I am off to try converting again now that I know to try passing "init=reiserfs" in grub (will it work though?... Off to see!) Thank you for being so helpful and patient while I pound my head through this! Madison Chris Cox wrote: > Madison Kelly wrote: > >> I am so sorry for asking but how would I check? >> > > I'm a SUSE user myself. It's mkinitrd script > makes it pretty easy to add modules to your > initrd. I'd check that lvm_mkinitrd script > of yours... you may have to tweak it. > In fact, SUSE's script detects (tries anyway) if > your root filesystem is LVM's and automatically > adds in the lvm_mod if it wasn't specified. > > There's probably a way to find out easily if > it's there already.. just not sure off the top of my head.