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 ESMTP id i9GMZQr32473 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 18:35:26 -0400 Received: from natnoddy.rzone.de (natnoddy.rzone.de [81.169.145.166]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i9GMZOOF009199 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 18:35:24 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.10] (lsanca2-ar34-4-12-081-165.dsl-verizon.net [4.12.81.165]) by post.webmailer.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i9GMZMiH020121 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 00:35:23 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <4171A227.6080901@gmx.net> Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 15:35:19 -0700 From: langelino MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Missing volume group device References: <41706483.8080409@gmx.net> <1097948615.3069.4.camel@adler> <20041016195234.GI24242@agk.surrey.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20041016195234.GI24242@agk.surrey.redhat.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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"; format="flowed" To: LVM general discussion and development Alasdair G Kergon wrote: >On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 12:43:35PM -0500, David Mohr wrote: > > >>On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 19:00, langelino wrote: >> >> >>>[root]# ls -l /dev/vg* >>>ls: /dev/vg*: No such file or directory >>> >>> >>Just a guess, but what about vgmknodes? >> >> Great. This was it. Thanks! This command appears to be a bit hidden. It's neither mentioned in the lvm-howto nor in the lvm2 man-page. > >And LVM2 tools ignore any '/dev/' prefix anyway in this >context - 'lvresize vg01/lvol1' is sufficient. > > Well, yes but if one wants to shrink the filesystem on a logical volume the tools to do so, like "resize_reiserfs", expect afaik a proper device. Matt