[This message has also been posted.] On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:18:05 -0400 (EDT), Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@bmsi.com> wrote: > On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Faheem Mitha wrote: > >>> You might need "vgchange -ay myvg". >> >> This activates volume groups. Is this the problem, and is so, why? I >> thought the issue was that something had deleted my symbolic links >> under /dev/mapper. Still no idea why. > > One of the things activating a VG does is create the symlinks in /dev/mapper. I see. Thanks, I'll bear that in mind if this situation recurs. Regards, Faheem > -- > Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@bmsi.com> > Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154 > "Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis" - background song for > a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial. Ah yes. Mozart's Requiem. > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > _______________________________________________ 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/