On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 09:42:44PM +0100, Geoff Dolman wrote: > On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 16:49, Patrick Caulfield wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 03:59:39PM +0100, Geoff Dolman wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > I have a machine with the following partition structure: > > > > > > /dev/sda1 /boot (ext3) > > > /dev/sda2 swap > > > /dev/sda3 LVM > > > > > > The LVM (1.03/rh9) contains one PV and this has Volume00 in it which > > > contains lvs for slash, usr, var, /usr/local and so on... > > > > > > I rebooted the machine for the first time in ages (same kernel > > > configuration as the last reboot and no changes - or very few). > > > > > > The machine won't reboot - it panics because of a message (something) > > > like: > > > > > > vgscan found inactive "Volume00" > > > Error 28 Unable to make /etc/lvmtab.d/Volume00/Volume00.tmp > > > vg_cfgbackup.c line 273 > > > > > > > Error 28 is ENOSPC - your initrd is too small to hold the metadata backups. > > Thanks - but how do I fix this? Append the kernel boot parameter "ramdisk_size=" and give a size in kilobytes (eg, 'ramdisk_size=16384' makes 16MB ram disks. > > cheers > > Geoff > > -- > JDRF/WT Diabetes and Inflammation Laboratory > Cambridge Institute for Medical Research > University of Cambridge > http://www-gene.cimr.cam.ac.uk/todd/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Red Hat GmbH Consulting Development Engineer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@RedHat.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ 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/
