Am Sa, den 07.02.2004 schrieb linux-lvm-admin@redhat.com um 23:34: > Some more tips that might be useful: > dmsetup vgmknodes: creates /dev/mapper directories entries for active devices I think you meant "dmsetup mknodes". :-) > > From the initrd image, however, vgchange is unable to activate > > the volumes. > If it's read-only, vgscan/vgchange --ignorelockingfailure What's also useful with a dynamic /dev (like mounted on ramfs with udev) on a read-only root filesystem (I'm doing this here in the early system boot rc when /dev is populated even before the filesystem checking and mounting begins): lvm vgscan --mknodes --ignorelockingfailure _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/