[linux-lvm] fschk & LVM

[linux-lvm] fschk & LVM

[hail narcissus]

First of all, I live in California, home of the rolling blackouts.  :)

I was wondering what LVM does for 'fschk'.  Can I run it on my volume group 
or is this considered a pretty bad thing?  If not, is there something that 
LVM uses in it's place?

Thanks.
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Re: [linux-lvm] fschk & LVM

[Heinz J. Mauelshagen]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 02:37:42PM -0800, hail narcissus wrote:
> 
> First of all, I live in California, home of the rolling blackouts.  :)

:-)

> 
> I was wondering what LVM does for 'fschk'.

LVM knows nothing about file system checks because it is a block device layer
entity just supporting io to blocks.

> Can I run it on my volume group 
> or is this considered a pretty bad thing?

You can't access *the* VG directly anyway outside the scope of the LVM tools.
So you can't for eg. not do a fsck on a VG.

> If not, is there something that 
> LVM uses in it's place?

Yes, LVM has a VGDA (Volume Group Descriptor Area; that's the metadata LVM
stores on every device it uses) consistency checker called vgck(8).

Pleas have a look at "man lvm" in order to get an overview of LVM
and pointers to all of its tools.

> 
> Thanks.
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