I am guessing that rescue CD has a restrictive filter setup which prevents vgscan from seeing the drives. On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 10:04:06AM -0700, Mark Miksis wrote: > I'm trying to extend a root LVM. I'm using LVM2 on FC2. Here is what > I've tried: > > I ran lvextend when the system was booted normally and the volumes were > mounted. This worked as expected and lvdisplay properly shows the new > larger size. > > Then I booted into the FC2 rescue CD and instructed it to NOT search for > and mount Fedora installations. I then ran: > # resize2fs /dev/Volume00/LogVol00 > I don't have the specific error, but it basically says that the > specified volume doesn't exist. Indeed if I look in /dev, my volume > group and volumes are nowhere to be found. > > At that point I tried: > # lvm > lvm> vgscan > After only about 1 second, it responds that no volumes are found. > > I also tried rebooting from the CD and letting it mount my > installations. In this case, the volume and volume groups are properly > discovered and mounted. However, if I try to unmount the volume, it > always responds with "device busy". > > Is this a problem with how the FC2 rescue disk scans for volumes? Any > help would be appreciated. > _______________________________________________ > 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/
