David Spear <dspear <at> telus.net> writes: > >  > Did I miss something in my restore? Do I need to restore a configuration of > some sort? I have read through the manpages on vgcfgbackup and vgcfgrestore and believe that these write out > configurations to the physical volumes. > As I can boot my old root (or boot from cd) > and both see and mount /dev/Volume00/TempVol Iâm sure thereâs > nothing wrong with my volume group configuration on the disksâ > Okay, solved my own problem. My backup of root "/" that I restored onto the new logical volume /dev/Volume00/TempVol was lacking the block device to access TempVol. A simple: # mknod /dev/Volume00/TempVol b 58 4 was all I needed and up she came. I have a vague recollection that one of the manpages for an lvm utility mentioned something about backup/restore of special files but I can't remember which one... _______________________________________________ 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/
