From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from fentible.pjc.net (vpnuser1.surrey.redhat.com [172.16.9.1]) by pobox.surrey.redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i2VFnEJh020842 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:49:14 +0100 Received: from patrick by fentible.pjc.net with local (Exim 4.30) id 1B8hxr-0001jm-IL for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:49:15 +0100 Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:49:15 +0100 From: Patrick Caulfield Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lvm 1 unable to boot Message-ID: <20040331154915.GD27360@tykepenguin.com> References: <1080745179.12286.16.camel@lupin.private.cimr.cam.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1080745179.12286.16.camel@lupin.private.cimr.cam.ac.uk> Sender: Patrick Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: LVM general discussion and development On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 03:59:39PM +0100, Geoff Dolman wrote: > Hi > > I have a machine with the following partition structure: > > /dev/sda1 /boot (ext3) > /dev/sda2 swap > /dev/sda3 LVM > > The LVM (1.03/rh9) contains one PV and this has Volume00 in it which > contains lvs for slash, usr, var, /usr/local and so on... > > I rebooted the machine for the first time in ages (same kernel > configuration as the last reboot and no changes - or very few). > > The machine won't reboot - it panics because of a message (something) > like: > > vgscan found inactive "Volume00" > Error 28 Unable to make /etc/lvmtab.d/Volume00/Volume00.tmp > vg_cfgbackup.c line 273 > Error 28 is ENOSPC - your initrd is too small to hold the metadata backups. -- patrick