On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@bmsi.com> wrote: > On Mon, 6 Jun 2011, Misc Things wrote: > >> During the HDs checking phase, anaconda terminates with the message " >> unalbe to activate exported VG". >> I googled around with not much success. The only similar issue was >> closed in2007 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=191879) > > Exporting the VG is *supposed* to prevent activation. You can reverse this > with vgimport. Why did you wish to prevent activation? Normally, > vgexport is used prior to physically removing a VG from the system. > (And then vgimport after attaching the drives to the new system.) Well, I just want to keep my data intact while i'm playing with the installation. I understand that @ this point it's just easier to pull the power on the HDs with the VG in question. But i'm curious why this is a problem... Andrew _______________________________________________ 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/
