Martin, LVMs vgscan should happily find your VG in that changed configuration again and "vgchange -ay" will activate it afterwards. BTW: there's no need to change the SCSI id of HD 1. Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 05:15:29PM +0000, Martin Webster wrote: > I want to remove an internal Zip drive (SCSI ID#2) to make way for a DVD > drive. However, I have two SCSI drives set-up with LVM as follows and realise > that removing the Zip drive will cause a number of problems. Here's my > current configuration: > > sda Hard disk 0 (boot) - ID#0 > sdb Zip disk - ID#1 > sdc Hard disk 1 - ID#2 > cdrecorder - ID#6 > > / (root) is /dev/sdc5 (reiserfs) > /boot is /dev/sda5 (ext2) > swap is /dev/sda6 > Everything else is on the LVM spanning two physical volumes: one logical > volume. > > And here's what I plan to do: > > 1. Unplug the Zip drive and change SCSI ID of Hard disk 1 to ID#1 > 2. Boot system into single user mode: linux S root=/dev/sdb5 > 3. Remount root filesystem and /boot as read/write: > mount -n -o remount, rw / > mount -n -o remount, rw /boot > 4. Edit /etc/lilo.conf and change instances of "sdc " to "sdb" > 5. Run mk_initrd followed by LILO: > mk_initrd && /sbin/lilo > 6. Re-boot > > What I am uncertain of is whether this approach will work with LVM. Can any > one advise? > > BTW, I'm using SuSE 7.2 Professional. > > TIA, > > M > -- > Martin Webster <mwebster@ntlworld.com> > Registered Linux User #230322 > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/spider-monkey/ > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
