Your follow-up makes it sound as though you have a different problem from mine, but I can answer your question about mounting tmpfs over /etc: mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /etc You wind up with an empty /etc, but at that point there should be no problem. vgscan just wants some place to store a metadata backup which you are going to throw away, and after pivot-root runs you'll have a different /etc anyway. If the Gentoo startup scripts are like Red Hat's, they'll do a second LVM metadata backup into the "real" /etc later. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mwood@IUPUI.Edu MS Windows *is* user-friendly, but only for certain values of "user". _______________________________________________ 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/
