From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from o.ww.redhat.com (vpn50-6.rdu.redhat.com [172.16.50.6]) by pobox.stuttgart.redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j8QAlPBv029111 for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:47:25 +0200 Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:47:24 +0200 From: Heinz Mauelshagen Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM Status? Message-ID: <20050926104724.GA3517@redhat.com> References: <1127693099.15029.1.camel@pc7.dolda2000.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1127693099.15029.1.camel@pc7.dolda2000.com> Reply-To: mauelshagen@redhat.com, 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 Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 02:04:58AM +0200, Fredrik Tolf wrote: > On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 10:15 -0500, Don Shesnicky wrote: > > How do you check the status of an LVM set of disks in RHEL3 and 4? > > The LVM FAQ mentions that you should have a /proc/lvm but my default > > RHEL3 and 4 systems do not have this directory in /proc and doing a > > Modprobe for lvm-mod does not create one. On an RHEL4 test system I > > do see an lvm tool but it doesn't show the status. > > I'm not *sure* about this, but I believe that /proc/lvm was only used > for LVM 1.0, True. > while device-mapper doesn't have such a thing. True. > RHEL3 is > based on a 2.6 kernel, right? No, RHEL3 is 2.4 based, RHEL4 is based on 2.6. > > How about the userspace tools instead? Try pvdisplay, vgdisplay or > lvdisplay, depending on what info you want. Or is there some other info > that you're hunting for? If you're using LVM2 (ie, running RHEL4), you might want to look at the output formatable tools pvs, vgs, lvs. > > Fredrik Tolf > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Red Hat GmbH Consulting Development Engineer Am Sonnenhang 11 Cluster and Storage Development 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@RedHat.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-