Dear Milan, Marvellous. This solved the problem. Many thanks and best wishes, J. Milan Broz wrote: > On 03/03/2010 11:43 AM, J4 wrote: >> # vgchange -a y mds > ... >> # ls /dev/mapper | grep mds >> brw------- 1 root root 253, 11 Mar 3 11:17 /dev/mapper/mds-mds > > So the only LV name "mds" there is properly activated. > > LVM will not activate partitions on the LV automatically, > but you can use "kpartx" utility to do that (see man kpartx). > > Try "kpartx -a /dev/mds/mds" > > (before deactivating LV you will need run kpartx -d to remove these > partition mappings again.) > > Milan _______________________________________________ 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/