Mark, what's in your syslog WRT your problem? What does "vgscan" say? Does "pvscan" 'see' all your physical volumes making up the volume group? On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 09:37:16PM -0000, lvmlist@spltd.f9.co.uk wrote: > > Hi all, > > It seems I'm up to my neck in it again :-( > > Briefly, I ran out of space on my LVM mounted /home partition but as I > have 1.5GB space free on another disk I thought I'd add that to my > volume group and increase the size of /home. All seemed to go OK until > reboot upon which my system can only mount / (which is independent of > LVM). It appears that /etc/lvmtab /etc/lvmtab.d have all been deleted > hence why it can't find LVG "system". > /etc/lvmtab exists but is empty. > /etc/lvmtab.d/ exists but is empty. > /etc/lvmconf/ exists & contains system.conf.1.old and system.conf > (newest). > > System is SuSE 8.0 Pro. on i386 > Harddisks: 2 scsi mounted as > > /dev/sdb1 swap > /dev/sdb2 / > /dev/sdb3 LVM > > /dev/system/home /home > /dev/system/usr /usr > /dev/system/var /var > > sda had an old installation of SuSE on it is > presently unused (and half the size of sdb). > > Any guidance as to where to go from here would > be appreciated pls. > > Thanks, > > Mark Pearson. > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
