Ellis,
with devfs in place, you need to run vgscan _before_ "vgchange -ay" is run
in your system startup script (whatever that is distro-depenedent).
vgscan works on all volume groups (no matter if active or not).
On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 03:23:56AM -0700, Ellis Whitehead wrote:
> Hi Heinz,
>
> > have you removed _all_ /dev/-Entries for LVs and retried
> > "vgscan -f" without success so far ?
>
> I'm using devfs, and removal of the /dev/{VG}/{LV} entries isn't permitted. The
> VG and LVs show up under /dev if the VG is active, and otherwise they aren't
> present. Once the VG is active, the LV entries cannot be modified by the usual
> command line tools, as far as I've seen...
>
> Since vgscan can only works on active volumes, and since active volumes are
> already immutably set in /dev, I'm afraid this solution won't work.
>
> Is there any way to manually set the block device? Or is there any way to get
> vgscan to start anew without the block device numbers in /dev?
>
> Thanks!
> Ellis
>
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