Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] getting LVM VG devil-linux on hard drive to 'stick' across reboots...

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

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On Fri, August 25, 2006 11:29, John wrote:
> I'm upgrading to DL V1.2.10 on my firewall PC and it seems to be having
> trouble keeping an LVM defined VG on the IDE hard drive to 'stick' across
> reboots.
>
> I have defined the 'devil-linux' volume group on the third physical
> partition of the hard drive (fdisk sees it as part3).  I have several
> logical volumes such as swap, spool, squid, opt, home which were then
> formatted with mkfs.reiserfs or mkfs.ext3 as I thought would work best
> (excluding swap which was formatted with mkswap).  All operations
> completed successfully.
>
> DL seems to mount the 'devil-linux' volume group at boot time, but any
> file or directory that I create under /var seems to disappear after a
> reboot.  How can I verify that LVM is working OK, and fix it if it isn't?
> Is there a step missing in the web-online documentation for
> volume groups.   I did vgscan and a save-config following LVM creations and
> LV updates.

I'm using the LVM functionality a lot myself, so it should work just fine.
One problem with LVM I found is that using the short device name (i.e.
/dev/hda1 ) doesn't work right, use the long name (i.e.
/dev/ide/host1/bus1/target0/lun0/part1 ).

What's the output of the mount command?
What happens when you execute
/etc/init.d/mountfs start

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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org

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