From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from agk.surrey.redhat.com (agk.surrey.redhat.com [172.16.10.74]) by pobox.surrey.redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k03EF3ws029073 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 14:15:03 GMT Received: from agk by agk.surrey.redhat.com with local (Exim 4.34) id 1EtmwJ-0001FH-Dv for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Tue, 03 Jan 2006 14:15:03 +0000 Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 14:15:03 +0000 From: Alasdair G Kergon Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] vg not intact after other disks are exchanged Message-ID: <20060103141503.GA4346@agk.surrey.redhat.com> References: <20051230181808.GA15333@openlib.org> <20051231144230.GA8019@openlib.org> <20051231170056.GB8049@openlib.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051231170056.GB8049@openlib.org> 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 > > It is strange that the scan does not find the /dev/hdd volume, > > but the display manually finds the same data. > Actually, I found that using lvm.conf, I can tell it to > scan for the disk, and then the disk is found, and the > vg1 is created. This closes my problem. But it is still > bad that pvscan can't find the disk after other disks > have been exchanged. Maybe this is a bios problem. Debian users in particular often report problems like this because of an incorrect symlink connecting /dev/cdrom to /dev/hdd and an lvm.conf filter ignoring cdrom. Alasdair -- agk@redhat.com