From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: 2 May 2001 05:23:31 -0600 Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 05:23:31 -0600 (MDT) From: Todd Underwood Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] odd problem In-Reply-To: <200105012312.RAA27583@lynx.turbolabs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com andreas, folx, thanks for the replies and suggestions. comments below... On Tue, 1 May 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Todd Underwood writes: > > All was working well but recently i needed to reboot (i was unable to > > increase the size of my / with the online ext2 tools and it was full > > --not sure what the error was there, or whether that is relevant). > > Probably not relevant, but it is of interest to me what sort of problems > you had. I assume you have patched the kernel with the online ext2 > kernel patches and also enabled CONFIG_EXT2_RESIZE? You should not have > any problems resizing root. i am using the kernel patch and have CONFIG_EXT2_RESIZE. i have had problems with resizing when i resize several filesystems repeatedly by small amounts (that is always my preference, rather than giving one big boost that may waste space). at the time i had difficulties the root was full (except for space reserved for root), but i don't know if that is relevant. unfortunately, i've got no specifics to report, but i'll try to reproduce it today. > > lvm -- lvm_chr_ioctl: unknown command 4004fe0a > > Expected behaviour with new tools (compatibility reasons). However, it > _does_ indicate that you do not have beta7 LVM kernel code. > interesting. i will recompile, recompile, re-lilo and try again. this really *was* working with that kernel before. sigh. this is helpful to know, though. > Do you run "vgchange -a y" (and optionally vgscan) in startup scripts? > There is a "LVM root howto" somewhere on the Sistina site. > yes. i put vgchange -a y and vgscan in /etc/rc.sysinit (it's a RH box) and that seems to be working well for now without the LVM root, but given the problems i've had with /etc, i will recheck the faq and try again. again, thanks for the help. todd