Gingia, the normal procedure is "vgscan ; vgchange -ay ; mount -a" rather than vgcfgrestore before vgchange. vgscan recognizes changes in the IO configuration (e.g. devices moved to different addresses causing device nodes t change). Have you tried "vgscan ; vgchange -ay ; mount -a" before ? (keep in mind, that vgscan needs space below /etc/ to store metadata copies) Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 05:54:20PM +0200, Gingia wrote: > Hi all. > I write in this list to explain the problem with the meta data and the > inconsistence. > > Thank to Heinz J . Mauelshagen i solve the principal problem. > > Now i have another problem caused by the same root. > > When i start the devlopment server (debian woody), it remain in the runlevel > 1 e ask me the pass to root access for device-filesystem problem. > It said that it had problem with the lvm. > > To start the sewrver i must to : > 1) vgcfgrestore -n volume1 -f /etc/lvmconf/volume1.conf /dev/i2o/hda3 > 2) vgchange -a y > 3) mount -a > and only now i can go to runlevel 2 for normal start. > > So i understand that 1) the "restoring" metadata is a routine operation at > boostrap instead of a propely restoring 2) for some reason this does not > happen more. > > So my question is: Why ? > How i can restabilished this at boot time? I can move to solve this other > problem? > Can you help me? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ *** 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/