From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Sutton Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 09:42:19 -0500 Subject: [linux-lvm] question about lvm Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-linux-lvm Errors-To: owner-linux-lvm List-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@msede.com i'm not really certain if this is the appropriate place to air a question about lvm problems, but since i couldn't find any other documented support - i figured i'd just go to the source. i'm fairly new at using lvm (yesterday) so this is probably just a newbie question... anyway, i installed lvm, rebuilt my kernel (with lvm in the kernel), compiled the utilities, the whole thing. i then proceeded to drop 2 pv's into a volume group (vda) and allocate one logical volume (lvol1) consisting of all my disk space. and it worked (at which point i was ecstatic). so i built an ext2fs on the lv and mounted it, and again it worked fine. i then put a line in my fstab to mount it on boot, and rebooted. when the machine came back up, the drive was not mounted. when i tried mounting it by hand, i kept getting a "/dev/vda/lvol1 is not a valid block driver" error. using some of the lvm utils, i uncovered the fact that the entire volume group was "inactive". i'm not entirely certain what went wrong or where, but i couldn't find any documentation about this particular problem. does anybody have any idea where i might have gone wrong? thanks in advance, ------------------- Andrew Sutton ansutton@sep.com