From: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
To: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Setting LVM logical volume filesystem type
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:36:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090610053618.GA18433@maude.comedia.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cf917e520906091417n31a7a0e1i4e40d84ee8170d68@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:17:47AM +0300, ajalkane wrote:
>Hi,
>
>how can I set the filesystem type for LVM2 logical volume? For some
>reason my logical volume /var, which is ext3, suddenly started to be
>detected as solaris_mirror_member (or something to that effect) which
>causes it to be unable to be automatically mounted. If I mount it
>manually specifying the filesystem type as ext3 it works. Fsck reports
>no errors.
>
>This happened just suddenly. Naturally I would like to know how it
>could corrupt like that. But it might be difficult. Right now I just
>want my system to be usable again. How can I tell LVM that it is
>indeed ext3 volume without reformatting the logical volume?
lvm has no notion of what is inside a logical volume.
i suppose blkid (which is used by mount to find the fs type got it
wrong)
check running
blkid /dev/vgXXX/lvolYYY
and
blkid -c /dev/null /dev/vgXXX/lvolYYY
L.
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2009-06-09 21:17 [linux-lvm] Setting LVM logical volume filesystem type ajalkane
2009-06-10 5:36 ` Luca Berra [this message]
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