On Feb 07, 2002 10:20 -0800, Wolfe, Gordon W wrote: > 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. OK, well lvm-0.8 is _very_ old and undoubtably has a _huge_ number of bugs. You should be able to use the recent LVM version on 2.2 kernels still. > > 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" You probably need to add the names of the DASD devices to the list that LVM searches. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ _______________________________________________ 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