Comments on: Using lvm only on specific drives (Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while…) http://ramblings.narrabilis.com/wp/using-lvm-only-on-specific-drives-reading-all-physical-volumes-this-may-take-a-while/ Scripts, settings, and fixes... Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:37:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: uphill http://ramblings.narrabilis.com/wp/using-lvm-only-on-specific-drives-reading-all-physical-volumes-this-may-take-a-while/comment-page-1/#comment-21730 uphill Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:42:09 +0000 http://ramblings.narrabilis.com/wp/?p=157#comment-21730 Our systems are RedHat/Fedora/Centos based, the vgscan is issued from the initrd on our distro, so it should be in the initramfs on yours. This is because the system needs to do the vgscan to find the lvm's and mount '/' before it can read '/etc/init.d/lvm2'. On our system the /etc/lvm/lvm.conf is picked up by the call to mkinitrd, I assume something similar will happen on debian (I don't know much about debian, sorry), maybe check how the system updates itself after a kernel upgrade. Our systems are RedHat/Fedora/Centos based, the vgscan is issued from the initrd on our distro, so it should be in the initramfs on yours. This is because the system needs to do the vgscan to find the lvm’s and mount ‘/’ before it can read ‘/etc/init.d/lvm2′. On our system the /etc/lvm/lvm.conf is picked up by the call to mkinitrd, I assume something similar will happen on debian (I don’t know much about debian, sorry), maybe check how the system updates itself after a kernel upgrade.

]]> By: Alex http://ramblings.narrabilis.com/wp/using-lvm-only-on-specific-drives-reading-all-physical-volumes-this-may-take-a-while/comment-page-1/#comment-21722 Alex Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:38:30 +0000 http://ramblings.narrabilis.com/wp/?p=157#comment-21722 Hi! I am using Debian ... it looks like the vgscan is issued in /etc/init.d/lvm2. Do you have any idea if I also have to update the initramfs? Alex Hi!

I am using Debian … it looks like the vgscan is issued in /etc/init.d/lvm2. Do you have any idea if I also have to update the initramfs?

Alex

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