On Wed, Jun 05 '02 at 11:38, Jason C. Leach wrote: > When I boot my system ( a test box ) the VG always are not active. I must do: > vgchange -a y test > Any reason for this? By design. The kernel need the userspace tool to scan the discs and setup the metadata. There are other aproaces (LVM2 or EVMS (IIRC)) but as long as you want to stay with the (stable) LVM1 you must do this (btw: it's documented that way). Cu, Goetz. _______________________________________________ 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