> I'm having a very strange problem. Perhaps you guys can help me. > > > I needed to make a public repository for the contents of five CD's, so I > set up a Linux server using SuSE 2.2.16 on S/390 under z/VM. For five > CD's, I figured two volumes ought to hold the contents. An rpm query > shows lvm-0.8-157, which is what came with the SuSe distribution. > > I added two 3390-3 full-pack volumes to Linux and did a dasdfmt on them. > I went into YAST and created a logical volume group "vgcd" and a logical > volume "lvcd" using these two volumes. > I did a mke2fs on the logical volume /dev/vgcd/lvcd > I was able to mount /dev/vgcd/lvcd as /mnt and was able to do a "df' and > see them and copy some files to them > > So far, so good. Everything looking just fine. > > Now, the wierd part: > I manually umounted /dev/vgcd/lvcd, shut down and rebooted Linux. > After the reboot, the device /dev/vgcd/lvcd does not exist. > vgscan says "vgscan -- no volume groups found" > pvscan says "pvscan -- no valid physical volumes found" > vgck says "vgck -- no volume groups found" > pvdisplay /dev/vgcd/lvcd says "invalid physical volume name > "/dev/vgcd/lvcd" > ls /dev/lvcd says "No such file or directory" > If I go back into YAST to do it all over, it says I can't create volume > group "vgcd" because it already exists. But it doesn't show up in the > list of volume groups. > > > Can any of you point me in the right direction to see what the problem is? > > "Never trust any computer you can lift." Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D. (425)865-5940 VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company _______________________________________________ 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
