SAN is an EMC device. We are using lpcdd modules for an emc fibre optic card. PowerPath modules are from EMCpower.LINUX-3.0.7-007.i386.rpm We are using Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 1). The lvm version is from lvm-1.0.3-15. After a reboot, the server pascal comes up and does not see the SAN partition. It is shared between two servers. In order to activate the SAN partition I have to vgexport and then vgimport the vg npmu_vg02. Is there something that can be done so that it will come up cleanly? [root@pascal root]# pvscan pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/sda5" of VG "npmu_vg01" [192.89 GB / 12.23 GB free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sdb1" is associated to unknown VG "npmu_vg02" (run vgscan) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sdc1" is associated to unknown VG "npmu_vg02" (run vgscan) pvscan -- total: 3 [1.49 TB] / in use: 3 [1.49 TB] / in no VG: 0 [0] [root@pascal root]# vgexport npmu_vg02 vgexport -- ERROR "lvm_tab_vg_remove(): VG doesn't exist" removing volume group "npmu_vg02" from "/etc/lvmtab" vgexport -- volume group "npmu_vg02" NOT sucessfully exported [root@pascal root]# vgimport npmu_vg02 /dev/sdb1 vgimport -- doing automatic backup of volume group "npmu_vg02" vgimport -- volume group "npmu_vg02" successfully imported and activated [root@pascal root]# pvscan pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/sda5" of VG "npmu_vg01" [192.89 GB / 12.23 GB free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sdb1" of VG "npmu_vg02" [667.55 GB / 299.55 GB free] pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/sdc1" of VG "npmu_vg02" [667.55 GB / 299.55 GB free] pvscan -- total: 3 [1.49 TB] / in use: 3 [1.49 TB] / in no VG: 0 [0] [root@pascal root]# If vgscan is run [root@pascal etc]# vgscan vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) vgscan -- found active volume group "npmu_vg01" vgscan -- found inactive volume group "npmu_vg02" vgscan -- volume group "npmu_vg02" reuses an existing logical volume number; please vgexport/vgimport that VG or use option -f vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume groups _______________________________________________ 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/
