Heinz, > A 'workaround' for non-devfs configurations is > > ls /dev/*/group | sed 's!/group!!' | xargs rm -r ; vgmknodes > ??Something wrong on "sed 's!/group!!' ", it did not work. > > link the single executable statically by running > "./configure --enable-static_link" (which doesn't use the shared libs). > It did not work. I rebuilt LINUX kernel & LVM after "./configure --enable-static_link". I got the same result. Another big issues came as follow; I tried to go back to LVM1.0.3, but getting a big trouble. Q1: Is it backward compatible from LVM1.1-rc2 to LVM1.0.3 or not? I already built the volume from LVM1.1-rc2 then I went back to LVM1.0.3. All of LVM tools are not working as shown in the following console output. Q2: How could I remove this volume and rebuild? I do not care about the data. During boot or after the boot, I have the following errors; [root@localhost /]# vgscan -f vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) vgscan -- found inactive volume group "volRaid0" vgscan -- ERROR "lv_check_consistency(): LV status" volume group "volRaid0" is inconsistent vgscan -- ERROR: unable to do a backup of volume group "volRaid0" vgscan -- ERROR "lvm_tab_vg_remove(): unlink" removing volume group "volRaid0" from "/etc/lvmtab" vgscan -- found inactive volume group "volRaid5" vgscan -- ERROR "lv_check_consistency(): LV status" volume group "volRaid5" is inconsistent vgscan -- ERROR: unable to do a backup of volume group "volRaid5" vgscan -- ERROR "lvm_tab_vg_remove(): unlink" removing volume group "volRaid5" from "/etc/lvmtab" vgscan -- found inactive volume group "volDisk" vgscan -- ERROR "lv_check_consistency(): LV status" volume group "volDisk" is inconsistent vgscan -- ERROR: unable to do a backup of volume group "volDisk" vgscan -- ERROR "lvm_tab_vg_remove(): unlink" removing volume group "volDisk" from "/etc/lvmtab" vgscan -- found inactive volume group "volDisk2" vgscan -- ERROR "lv_check_consistency(): LV status" volume group "volDisk2" is inconsistent vgscan -- ERROR: unable to do a backup of volume group "volDisk2" vgscan -- ERROR "lvm_tab_vg_remove(): unlink" removing volume group "volDisk2" from "/etc/lvmtab" vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume groups [root@localhost /root]# ls /dev/*/group ls: /dev/*/group: No such file or directory [root@localhost /root]# vgmknodes vgmknodes -- no volume groups found to create nodes for Thanks for your help, Bo _______________________________________________ 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