I am new to LVM and I wanted to use it when I installed a new machine
with RH8. So going through the install I set everything up with Disk
Druid selecting PV, LV, LVM and gathering all my LV into groups. I
kept /boot out of the LVM config but everything else is in LVM. The
layout is shown below. I have two drives and on the first drive I have
four partitions: dos, /boot, swap and one for /tmp and /var/tmp. On my
second disk I have one partition (Volume00) and the following
filesystems: /, /usr, /usr/local, /usr/src, /var, /home.
With plenty of disk space > 100GB I selected an 'Everything' install
and sat back just waiting for everything to complete. Well, part way
through the install an error displayed saying that I didn't have enough
space on /usr and I needed 1991M more space. Well /usr was provisioned
for 2GB so I went back and just selected specific packages and tried
again. This time an error displayed saying I needed 1500M more space on
/. That seemed odd as I had set / to 500M which I thought would be
plenty with a separate /home, /usr, /tmp, /var. So I went back and did
just a very minimal package selection and tried again. This time the
installation succeeded. Finally finished all the additional screens
and it said to have a nice computing experience and then went to a
blank screen and just sat there - dead. So I pushed the big button and
waited for reboot. It booted fine and seems to be operating ok but now
I have concerns.
Why was the RH8 installation with LVM needing so much space in / and
/usr? Was this correct or a bug?
Do I need to expand any of the filesystems to install all the
additional
packages that I was not able to install during installation.
How can I expand the filesystems when LVM commands aren't working?
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Here are the results from running some commands:
+ /sbin/pvdisplay
pvdisplay -- ERROR: "/etc/lvmtab" doesn't exist; please run vgscan
+ /sbin/vgscan
vgscan -- LVM driver/module not loaded?
+ cat /etc/fstab
/dev/Volume02/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults
1 1
LABEL=/boot12 /boot ext3 defaults
1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620
0 0
/dev/Volume02/LogVol05 /home ext3 defaults
1 2
none /proc proc defaults
0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults
0 0
/dev/Volume01/LogVol00 /tmp ext3 defaults
1 2
/dev/Volume02/LogVol01 /usr ext3 defaults
1 2
/dev/Volume02/LogVol02 /usr/local ext3 defaults
1 2
/dev/Volume02/LogVol03 /usr/src ext3 defaults
1 2
/dev/Volume02/LogVol04 /var ext3 defaults
1 2
/dev/Volume01/LogVol01 /var/tmp ext3 defaults
1 2
/dev/Volume00/LogVol00 swap swap defaults
0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660
noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/hda /mnt/ls120.0 auto
noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
+ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/Volume02/LogVol00
495844 77895 392349 17% /
/dev/hdc2 147778 9594 130554 7% /boot
/dev/Volume02/LogVol05
5039616 35736 4747880 1% /home
none 256976 0 256976 0% /dev/shm
/dev/Volume01/LogVol00
5039616 32968 4750648 1% /tmp
/dev/Volume02/LogVol01
2015824 844632 1068792 45% /usr
/dev/Volume02/LogVol02
10079084 32916 9534168 1% /usr/local
/dev/Volume02/LogVol03
10079084 32828 9534256 1% /usr/src
/dev/Volume02/LogVol04
15118728 67072 14283656 1% /var
/dev/Volume01/LogVol01
51395204 32828 48751588 1% /var/tmp
+ ps -e
PID TTY TIME CMD
1 ? 00:00:05 init
2 ? 00:00:00 keventd
3 ? 00:00:01 kapmd
4 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
5 ? 00:00:00 kswapd
6 ? 00:00:00 bdflush
7 ? 00:00:00 kupdated
8 ? 00:00:00 mdrecoveryd
15 ? 00:00:00 kjournald
71 ? 00:00:00 khubd
208 ? 00:00:00 kjournald
209 ? 00:00:00 kjournald
210 ? 00:00:00 kjournald
211 ? 00:00:00 kjournald
212 ? 00:00:00 kjournald
213 ? 00:00:00 kjournald
214 ? 00:00:00 kjournald
215 ? 00:00:00 kjournald
514 ? 00:00:00 dhclient
553 ? 00:00:00 syslogd
557 ? 00:00:00 klogd
574 ? 00:00:00 portmap
593 ? 00:00:00 rpc.statd
674 ? 00:00:00 apmd
712 ? 00:00:00 sshd
726 ? 00:00:00 xinetd
740 ? 00:00:00 ntpd
764 ? 00:00:00 sendmail
774 ? 00:00:00 sendmail
784 ? 00:00:00 gpm
793 ? 00:00:00 crond
822 ? 00:00:00 xfs
840 ? 00:00:00 atd
849 tty1 00:00:00 mingetty
850 tty2 00:00:00 mingetty
851 tty3 00:00:00 mingetty
852 tty4 00:00:00 mingetty
853 tty5 00:00:00 mingetty
854 tty6 00:00:00 mingetty
855 ? 00:00:00 gdm-binary
900 ? 00:00:00 gdm-binary
901 ? 03:14:45 X
910 ? 00:00:01 gnome-session
952 ? 00:00:00 ssh-agent
957 ? 00:00:00 gconfd-2
959 ? 00:00:00 bonobo-activati
961 ? 00:00:09 metacity
964 ? 00:00:00 gnome-settings-
977 ? 00:00:00 xscreensaver
980 ? 00:00:08 gnome-panel
982 ? 00:00:03 nautilus
984 ? 00:00:41 magicdev
987 ? 00:00:00 pam-panel-icon
989 ? 00:01:23 rhn-applet-gui
990 ? 00:00:00 pam_timestamp_c
1033 ? 00:00:00 nautilus-throbb
8880 ? 00:00:22 gnome-terminal
8881 pts/0 00:00:00 bash
9053 ? 00:00:00 gconfd-2
9055 ? 00:00:00 gnome-help
9057 ? 00:00:00 bonobo-activati
9066 ? 03:32:00 gnome2-info2htm
9070 ? 00:00:02 yelp
9085 ? 00:00:33 mozilla-bin
9691 ? 00:00:00 lpd
9758 ? 00:00:05 gnome-search-to
9965 pts/0 00:00:00 bash
9970 pts/0 00:00:00 ps
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Wouldn't LVM be running by default when the system boots?
Additional questions:
Is it better to have / outside of LVM maybe in case of LVM problems?
If it is then should any other filesystems be outside with /.
Regards,
Gerry Reno
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