From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id i1B8Goi13681 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 03:16:50 -0500 Received: from yakka.services.adelaide.edu.au (yakka.services.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.41.32]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id i1B8Gmb27505 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 03:16:48 -0500 Message-ID: <4029E4E5.3040306@adelaide.edu.au> From: Chris Doherty MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1076220042.4025d08a18acb@pandani.services.adelaide.edu.au> <1076241638.402624e656f43@pandani.services.adelaide.edu.au> <200402081354.15872.rainer@krienke.org> <1076247930.40263d7a87098@pandani.services.adelaide.edu.au> <4026FEC4.2050005@adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <4026FEC4.2050005@adelaide.edu.au> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [linux-lvm] Re: [linux-lvm]Re: corrupt /dev/lvm - bizzare properties Sender: linux-lvm-admin@redhat.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@redhat.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@redhat.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Wed Feb 11 03:16:05 2004 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-lvm@redhat.com Cc: Rainer krienke , linux-lvm@sistina.com >> The filesystem containing /dev has been damaged somehow. You should >> fsck it. Most likely fsck will remove /dev/lvm so you'll have to >> recreate it with proper values. Don't just rm it. Something bad has >> obviously happened and changing things without a proper fsck can make >> things worse. i'm happy to report a fsck of the root filesystem fixed the problem. now why didn't i do that in the first place? :) it didn't remove /dev/lvm though, it just repaired it. thanks to all for their suggestions.