Hi all, may someone kindly assist me in thei quite funny behavior of LVM i work on a runnging LVM system .. everything works as it should BUT: when running pvscan i get root@prime:~# pvscan pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/md1" of VG "system" [19.97 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/md2" of VG "dataraid" [13.88 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/md3" of VG "dataraid" [68.36 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- total: 3 [102.24 GB] / in use: 3 [102.24 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0] # well /dev/md1 is my system ( / , /usr, /var ,... ) it works quite fine :-o root@prime:~# vgscan vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) vgscan -- found active volume group "system" vgscan -- found active volume group "dataraid" vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume groups # well thats great ;-) root@tttprime:~# lvscan lvscan -- ACTIVE "/dev/dataraid/ttchip" [9 GB] lvscan -- ACTIVE "/dev/dataraid/private" [20 GB] lvscan -- ACTIVE "/dev/dataraid/tttech" [20 GB] lvscan -- ACTIVE "/dev/dataraid/projects" [17 GB] lvscan -- ACTIVE "/dev/dataraid/sandbox" [9 GB] lvscan -- ACTIVE "/dev/dataraid/marketing+pr" [7.23 GB] Segmentation fault # oops i miss al my systemLVs .. still running on it ;-( root@tttprime:~# cat /proc/mounts rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 /dev/root.old /initrd ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/root / ext3 rw 0 0 proc /proc proc rw 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0 /dev/md0 /boot ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/system/tmp /tmp ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/system/var /var ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/system/usr /usr ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/system/usr_local /usr/local xfs rw 0 0 /dev/dataraid/private /ttt/private xfs rw 0 0 /dev/dataraid/ttchip /ttt/ttchip xfs rw 0 0 /dev/dataraid/tttech /ttt/tttech xfs rw 0 0 /dev/dataraid/marketing+pr /ttt/tttech/company/marketing+pr xfs rw 0 0 /dev/dataraid/projects /ttt/tttech/projects xfs rw 0 0 /dev/dataraid/sandbox /ttt/tttech/projects/sandbox xfs rw 0 0 still everything runs .. but i want it to be clean .. any advice would help thanks and best regards -c- _______________________________________________ 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/