From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Adding to vg broke it :-( Message-ID: <20021111113311.A23857@sistina.com> References: <20021110213716.spltd+lvmlist@force9> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20021110213716.spltd+lvmlist@force9>; from lvmlist@spltd.f9.co.uk on Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 09:37:16PM -0000 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: Mon Nov 11 04:38:01 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Mark, what's in your syslog WRT your problem? What does "vgscan" say? Does "pvscan" 'see' all your physical volumes making up the volume group? On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 09:37:16PM -0000, lvmlist@spltd.f9.co.uk wrote: > > Hi all, > > It seems I'm up to my neck in it again :-( > > Briefly, I ran out of space on my LVM mounted /home partition but as I > have 1.5GB space free on another disk I thought I'd add that to my > volume group and increase the size of /home. All seemed to go OK until > reboot upon which my system can only mount / (which is independent of > LVM). It appears that /etc/lvmtab /etc/lvmtab.d have all been deleted > hence why it can't find LVG "system". > /etc/lvmtab exists but is empty. > /etc/lvmtab.d/ exists but is empty. > /etc/lvmconf/ exists & contains system.conf.1.old and system.conf > (newest). > > System is SuSE 8.0 Pro. on i386 > Harddisks: 2 scsi mounted as > > /dev/sdb1 swap > /dev/sdb2 / > /dev/sdb3 LVM > > /dev/system/home /home > /dev/system/usr /usr > /dev/system/var /var > > sda had an old installation of SuSE on it is > presently unused (and half the size of sdb). > > Any guidance as to where to go from here would > be appreciated pls. > > Thanks, > > Mark Pearson. > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-