Re: [Evms-devel] EVMS problem with LVM2 container

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Hi Mike,

On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 23:22:34 -0700, Mike Myers wrote:
> So the main volume which is 2.5TB in size (1.2TB in md2 and 1.3 TB in
> md1) can't be mounted.  It doesn't show that XFS (the filesystem I'm
> using) is there, and can't find a superblock.  For awhile I thought I
> lost all the data (1.1 TB's worth), but discovered an entry in my
> partitioner tool in yast (this is a SUSE 10.2 system) called
> /dev/mapper/media-media2, and if that I can mount fine, and access all
> the data in the filesystem.  I have this mounted and service restored,
> but if I reboot it goes away and I have to futz around a lot to get it
> to work again (futz means run evmsgui, exit, then the partitioner
> tool, etc...) and then remount.

Check if your running the LVM2 tools (vgscan I suppose) before EVMS on
startup.  Maybe media-media2 is the only thing it can make sense of,
starts it and thereby later blocks it for EVMS.   You should either use
EVMS or mdadm/vgscan, but not both.


J=FCrgen

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