On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 09:17:09AM -0700, ronr wrote: > I am attempting to implement lvm (Linux kernel 2.4.5 Slackware 8.0) > using 2 drives for linux (lilo uses MBR on a 3rd). After partitioning > the drive, which will become (via copy from current drive) the new home > for the system under lvm (/, /usr, /var, /opt, /tmp, /home ext2fs), I > pvcreated all ok. When attempting to vgcreate, the volume groups > were not activated with vgcreate and vgchange -a y has no effect either. > > When querying alt.os.linux.slackware all I got was suggestions to > install > 2.4.18 plus 1.0 lvm. I would like not to do this, especially since lvm2 > > is coming out soon, if I can so as not to introduce further > idiosyncrasies (this is a test box). You would aid my decisioning if > you can tell me: > is it ok to have an lvm driver (per /proc/lvm/global) at 0.9.1_beta2 > when > the lvm tools appear to be (per pvcreate -V) 0.9.1_beta6? Could this > the > cause of inactivity with vgcreate? Have you created any volumes with lvcreate ? - Joe _______________________________________________ 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
